[T3] Max rpm

[Brian Fye]

The stock engine's max torque band is below 4000 rpm, so shifting more than
2-300 rpm above that doesn't help at all.  Cruising on a bone stock engine
at 4200 rpm all day long can be done, but that does tax the valve springs...


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 4 Apr 2014 at 16:44, Daniel K. Du Vall wrote:
>
> > Just curious about what the consensus here is for our stock type 1600 FI
> for a redline or max rpm is.
> > I am setting up My Megasquirt and want to setup the Rev limiter to help
> protect it from me ;-)
>
> I think the red line for a stock engine is about 4500 rpm, but don't
> do that very often or for very long. The D-Jet FI tops out at about
> the same place. If you balance and counterweight the engine, you can
> go to 5000, but the stock FI will stop you before you get there. No
> matter what you do, those high rpms are always hard on any engine.
>
> I've got a friend here who says that there's almost no stock valve
> train out there that will do much above 3700 without losing
> lubrication. So you can do that for brief spirts, but don't do it for
> sustained periods.
>
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