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Originally Posted by Alan L
Cool, enjoy it and don't break it.
They are a piece of motoring history, and a work of art.
Alan
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Yes agreed. But as you know (looking at your sig), they are a blast to drive hard so I guess sometimes we will break some things. Just hope nothing catastrophic.
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Originally Posted by gassian
video looks and sounds great..
how do you like those Rarly8 headers? i am itching to get those...
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Thanks. The RarelyL8 headers are paired with the Hoonigan modular catless muffler. When I first got it, it was crazy loud and really hollow sounding while both cruising and also in the upper RPMs. But I neutered the sound by putting a catalytic converter on it and that really chilled it out but I'm sure my neighbors are a lot happier lol. Because the Hoonigan is modular, the catalytic converter is easily removable if I want to go back to having that amazing (and loud) sound.
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Originally Posted by mark houghton
Broken rocker arms and bent valves? Ughhh...must have been messing with your cam chain tensioners and kinda-sorta screwed up the valve timing. I'll admit, ive been there many many (did I say many) moons ago on my first 911. Luckily for me just one exhaust valve took the hit and if my aging brain cells recall it was about a $75 sodium filled piece.
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In this case, I was doing some higher RPM WOT testing. I took it up to near 7K RPMs in second gear and when I pushed in the clutch to shift, the car backfired and lost power. My distributor cap actually popped off and so I was hoping it would be fixed by just snapping it back on...but no luck. I realize that it could have been a freak thing as the engine was designed to rev that high. But even being R&R'd about 15 years ago (receipts from prior owner), it's still a 45-year old engine and probably shouldn't be pushed to the limit all that often.