Re: V6 redline

[Alan Lambert <gerard@domain.elided>]

You know? you are touching on a similar question I've always pondered. 
Almost all passenger cars have roughly the same limit--around 6500 rpm. 
My question, since I am talking about many different types of engines, 
from straight fours to Vee-12s, is "how come"?--What is the limiting 
factor that is somewhat universal--can't be pistpon speed, since we are 
dealing with many different bores and strokes, doesn't sound like 
acceleration of internal parts either- for the same type of reason. Soooo 
what is it?---Mr. Esterhok, do you know?? or anyone else reading this?



On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 Vilejidiot@domain.elided wrote:

> I've begun to wonder (what took me so long???) why Alfa set the rev limiter 
> so low on an engine that produces all its power in the buttery-smooth upper 
> rev band... What is the true redline that should be used if one "disables" 
> the rev limiter (84 GTV6)? Can anyone give a reason why alfa set it so low? 
> driveline? valve float? looked good on the dial?
> 
> BTW, this is "alfanut" under my old alfa digest guise. My usual ISP has ben 
> placed on the spam list by that service that Richard uses. I must say I'm not 
> sure how effective that is if it also keeps many members off the list. I 
> don't like using AOL all that much but finally decided to sign up for the 
> digest via aol to again have a voice. At least the digest is no longer stored 
> as an attachment in AOL as it used to be...
> 
> Michael Williams
> 
> 

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Alan G. Lambert___________________________________<gerard@domain.elided>
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