[T3] Max rpm

[Adriel Rowley]

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> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:46:52 -0700
> From: bfye at canyonville.net
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Max rpm
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> 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...
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Ah, very good to know, though one has to go dark and instal a tachometer! ;p


Thank you so very much!
Adriel

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