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How high can I safely rev on stock internals

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Old 05-10-2006, 06:38 PM
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02 GT w/ stock internals.
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Old 05-10-2006, 06:39 PM
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6000 or so, its gonna run out of head and intake, regardless of max rpm
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Old 05-10-2006, 06:42 PM
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or so... like + or - 200??
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Old 05-10-2006, 07:53 PM
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6500 is fairly safe if your not doing it everyday and pointless if you have stock heads/cams. I would say anything up to 6200 will be safe everyday.
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6000 no more
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Old 05-10-2006, 08:16 PM
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Default RE: How high can I safely rev on stock internals

I think I have my fuel cuttoff at 6200 RPM. I don't want to see any more than that. I try to shift right at 6K or a little earlyer.

On your setup though its pointless to rev more than about 6000 anyway. N/A the stock heads and cams are really falling off at that point.

Even at full boltons you can see how the car is starting to fall off on my dyno:


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