High RPM motors (8000+)

Not really... But when they rate a thread as garbage from the git go and don't post anything about how they feel about it, It makes me think they're nothing but a bunch of...... Well, nevermind!

 

No explosion, ran fine and still had room to rev higher.

Charlie Stephens

 

Ok .... ill bite. What was the motor in? Aircraft? Turbine?

 

So what are the problems you are having with your 9,000 rpm engine.? Lippy

 

The raters are just mad cause there shifting at 5,500 RPM

I love this stuff, Keep twistin um up! its exciting

 

Turbine????

 

Would LOVE to hear that! How was it spun?

 

Hmmmmm Wrights? B29's?????

 

Awe come on man where's the traditional spirit in that??? How about one of those built out of a numbers matching stock looking 57 Fuelie ?

 

Damn guys he said he was having a problem with his 9,000 rpm small block, what the hell is all this turbine and B-29 talk? LOL. Lippy

 

Hahaha... No way in hell!

 

I never twisted mine past 8 grand... That car had to get me to work day in and day out..

 

BIG jump in the forces involved from 10,000 to 12,000 rpm.

 

I'm sorry did I miss about 300 pages here? Lippy

 

Early 283 Blocks...........can go .125 with no problem...I believe 1964 and earlier.......better yet...get the Canadian Blocks they are heavy..........check out SS/P 55 and 56 chevy's.........they are in the 11,000 RPM....you can hear them coming down the track, but it takes a while till they get there............11's and 12's. My 283 is 0.060 292"......came from an AHRA F/HR from 1972 Aluminum Rod.....Steel (302) notched flange crank wink wink......and JAHNS's 5/8 Deflector pistons....vintage.......it can hit 8500 RPM like nothing....just got to work on the trans and shifting.......when I miss at 8500, do not want to know how high it went........still running Ha Ha..........

If you want a little motor to get the heavy car off the line........slip in a Heavy Flywheel........50lb are available at HAYS'.

 

I lost track of how many sets of Lakewood motor mounts I've twisted in the past from reving these little motors out past 6500 rpm..

 

50,000 Chrysler Turbine Engne Lubbock Texas?

 

I have thought about building another one based on the newer Gen II LT1 block and a L-99 cast iron crank... Any thoughts???
Maybe just build it the old school way with a 327 block and 283 steel crank...

 

Heres a video of Gene Scwartz's 52' chevy. 10k in the burnout.

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He needs to get a new tach.

 

Gotta be careful not to step in the BS piles here.

 

540 cid at 8k

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I guess I just lost control there for a second. Sorry. I use to drive a E/MP 59 corvette years ago and it just somehow didn't sound like 10,000 rpm, sorry Flash. Lippy

 

The 415" LA mopar i have now is a low rpm stroker, but It just dont sound right if i shift before 6,000.

I used to have a 327 that i could wing up to 8100, but i winced every time, cuz it was built on a budget and i knew that grenade pin was pulled.

A buddy of mine had a 340 in a cuda that would come up on the cam around 4,500 and he shifted @ 9grand. Sounded amazing but he never could keep a driveline in that thing, though...

Not mine, but I love hearing this little nova mill shriek...

 

My NMCA combination in 1999. 407 c.i. Big block Chevy. 9.300 deck aluminum Donavan block (-.500), 4.500 bore, 3.200 stroke = 9200rpm.

 

We've got one for sale at our shop, circle track motor, 362c.i., built in an early small journal 327. 4.020 bore/3.562 stroke and around 12.5:1 compression, solid lifter cam (260's @ .050 and .570ish lift). Turned it 7700 in one class with a 500cfm 2bbl, went 8200 with an 830cfm 4bbl on top. Sounds good doing it too.....

 

It was in an experimental Chrysler turbine car built in the early sixties. They built a couple of hundred (maybe only a hundred I don't remember for sure). The cars were loaned to people to drive and evaluate. A few went on tour with an engineering team from Chrysler. I was an engineering major at UCLA at the time. The Chrysler team stopped at the school and I was able to drive one. I just threw it out to see if anyone remembered this small footnote in automotive history. All but a couple were destroyed for tax reasons, I thought they had very good body lines, sort of Buck Rogers. I saw one in the Harrah's collection before it was sold off. I saw another one at a Hershey swap meet. I think there may be one at the Peterson Museum.

Charlie Stephens

 

They had the body lines of a T'bird I believe...

 

Some 30yrs back the Museums there in LA off the Habor Frwy had one. I don't know about today though.

 

500" 10,000rpm, 1300hp
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