10,000 rpm v8 (how about Pro Stock?)

[Squash]

Who needs a production V-8 to spin that fast anyways? 
Production V-8s are not meant for racing, and that is
why you can't buy a production race car!

Andy

--- Shannen Durphey <shannen at grolen.com> wrote:
> Bill Edgeworth wrote:
> > 
> > "Frank/G.speed" wrote:
> > 
> > > How about NHRA Pro Stock motors?  500 ci, 1300+
> hp, 800+ ft-lbs,
> > > 9000+ rpm...  naturally aspirated.
> > >
> > 
> > The original comment was that NO AMERICAN
> PRODUCTION CAR CAME WITH A V8
> > THAT WAS MADE TO TURN 10,000 RPM.
> > Sorry but I don't think you can go down (or ever
> could) to your local
> > Chev dealer and buy a car with a aluminum or
> titanium rodded, jessel
> > rocker geared engine with a knife edged 4340 crank
> 
> You're changing what you're saying, methinks. 
> Production engines
> aside, you're now implying that 10k can't be reached
> without these
> parts.  Somebody's going to have to tell the little
> old V-8 guys they
> couldn't get their engines to rev. 
> 
> I'm not the expert.  I'm just noticing a subtle
> twist.  I'm thinking
> that there certainly must be engines that hit that
> rpm without the
> trick parts you mention. Maybe they're not V8s, but
> given a small
> enough bore and stroke, and small enough valves, and
> the upper rpm
> limits have to get pretty high. 
> 
> I wonder what was really available, depending on who
> you were and who
> your local Chevy dealer was.
> Shannen
> 
> 

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