How far beyond 7K have you been??
 

Spun it well beyond the old 6.2, then pushed it beyound 7K, stock 3.0 SC , only 29 K on the engine. I've turned it a good 7.5K and it asked for more??

if it is stock wouldn't the rev limiter have kicked in ?

Just alittle bit more and wait for the explosion!!!!!!!!!!

Tachs are not always accurate.

I'll let you do it, thanks. When I pass you it means I just shifted.:D:D:D

Considering it looses power after redline the question becomes... Why would you??

Stock valve springs were not engineered to perform at those thresholds. Your heading for an expensive lets see how far it will go. i occasionally ran mine up to 7 but really you shouldn't.

I'm guessing at somewhere around 11K to 12K.....

Once............

probrobly has the eqivelent of 60k on it now :)

I have a red line set in the ECU of 8.2.....! but guess what it is built to handle it!

You won't do that for long without paying a very dear price,...:(

The consequences are utterly catastrophic and leave you with VERY few usable parts.

I'd keep it under 7K unless you spend some $$$$ to make it reliable.

Note to self: Never buy a 1983 SC Red Cab from Saratoga.

Certainly when you hit the rev limiter it feels like it could could go on a whole lot higher in the rev band - but for power it is really just stupid. Sometimes on the track you could wish to go a little higher rpm's just to avoid shifting up just to shift down again, but that is the only time when I want more rpm's.

I read somewhere that as the earlier cars reved way past 7000, that the walve-train mechanism is built to handle that? But the bigger deplacement engines that followed really doesn't have the cams to give any power higher up the rev-band. And I guess that "if **** hits the fan" way past 7000 rpm's then you'd better get a new engine....!

If one build an engine like an RS/RSR then 7000 rpm's and more should be safe! So these engines have it in them... If I had the money....:D

Around 8k in my 69 912, it was so smooooothe!

Uh, what does that mean?

I'm guess he build the engine to handle higher then stock rpms

It means that I have a rev limit of 8.2k but the engine has all the bits to handle it.....! if I had a stock engine the rev limiter would also be stock!

As many have now pointed out it is a bit silly to push harder than the limit of the valve train.......unless it is a destructive testing excercise.

Mark........

Before I really knew better (and before the internets were around) I replaced the stock rev limiting rotor in my '76 2.7 with a rotor from a '73 S (?). The new rotor had a allowed 7300 rpm IIRC. I used to use it. :eek: Especially coming out of turn 7 at Road Atlanta in 2nd - the extra rpms came in handy there and many other places.

My stock 2.7 routinely saw 7k+ rpms and never missed a beat. YMMV.

my son took the 73 up to 7,500 - ONCE

Bill K


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..funny.. that is EXACTLY what i was thinking