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Greg and Mark were talking about the new motor and reliability, and noob that I am I asked them if maybe part of the reason the motor held up so well is that Mark is careful with it. They thought that was pretty funny and Greg made the comment that Mark could break a crowbar playing in a sandbox.
Mark Anderson's first car was a fairly stock, no special crank drilling Euro motor wasn't it?
I'd agree that boost in itself might not have any direct effect on the common failure modes. Maybe it would allow a slightly lower rpm range with sufficient power, that was the case with the stroker motors the race rpm dropped from something over 7200 rpm with the Euro to below 6500 with the stroker. Boost is going to make crankcase pressure more of an issue to control, but I don't know how that might figure into reliability.
Much more power than the current race stroker is going to break some transmissions, third gear seems close to the limit as it is now.
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US 83 zinc metallic 5 spd, aka the nice car.
Euro 85 black, 5 spd, the fast rough track car maybe car. SOLD
Euro 84 red, AT, only car in garage in years, my parts car, soon to go last 7 years.
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