10,000 RPM

[Steve Gorkowski]

You need to look at the Ford 4.6 squad car engine . Very high rev. engine at least
7000 RPM . How do I know is? A map sensor went out of cal. leaned out engine and
melted piston and other parts. The data was stored in the cars EFI memory.

Steve

Bill Edgeworth wrote:

> >
> >
> > Maybe a couple years ago.  Some of the incar footage has shown over 9K in
> > race conditions, and I'd wager, that in qualifing, they are close if not at
> > 10K.
> > Grumpy
> >
> >
>
> Yes, I have seen this too. I was just trying to make the point that if this is
> the limit for a 30 thousand dollar engine do people actually think a production
> engine can do the same thing?
> To my knowledge the 2 highest revving factory V8's were the chev 302 produced
> in the 69 Z-28 and the Ford Boss 302 Mustang (somebody correct me If I am
> wrong)
> And there was no way that Either could hit 10k without valve float (long before
> 10k) or breaking something.
>
> Bill Edgeworth