Re: Running at redline

[Rolf Mair <waves@epix.net>]

On Sat, 29 Apr 1995, Brooks Ellis wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 28 Apr 1995 quattro-digest-owner@coimbra.ans.net wrote:
> > as they tend to break at the number one cyl. sometimes #3. It's ok to tap 
> > redline once in awhile, to clean out the carbon, although I'm sure anyone 
> > on this group doesn't granny ride their cars. But running anything over 
> > 6k is harder on the engine than you might expect!
> 
> I ran at redline ( or within 500 rpm of it, unless I had braked and was 
> accelerating towards it ) for about a half an hour doing a canyon-speed 
> race thing. ( It's a thing with me and my friends.... I can do 25 
> minutes, which is the fastest.. If I upgraded my suspension and tires, 
> damn! ( these are all 99% + stock cars with shitty student tires ))
> My car didn't do anything funny. Wasn't even that hot. If it matters, I 
> have a K&N in there for improved upper end.
> 
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> 
Really? What kind of car is this? Sure the car may have done it, and I 
never said that it couldn't be done! Let me know if you need a motor, I 
have plenty of them laying around!!

If in fact, your car does what you are saying without 'lunchin' the 
motor, It can't be very healthy, for one big reason alone, if not stress. 
Unless you are running an 87 or later 5k or any other car with an oil 
cooler (you said the only mod was a filter), your motor is running very, 
very hot with that sort of abuse. I'm running an oil cooler thats bigger 
than the surface size of a shoebox on my race car. When I ran a drivers 
school at LimeRock last April (kinda cool weather) I was running 20 min. 
heats under similar engine rpm's (still not beating it like you were) and 
my temp wason the warm side. Yours must be boiling. Change your oil often!
r.mair