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Originally Posted by Deakins
Sorry but this has already essentially been done quite a few years ago by the NASCAR cup guys. Most if not all the major engine shops had 10,000 or 11,000 RPM valvtrain programs (they would get way into the 9,000's on race day before the rules backed them down). I'm all for RPM but the reality is more RPM translates into more maintenance 10 out of 10 times...
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More maintenance, probably, but a street driven car is not going to be buzzing around at 9,000 rpm all the time. If we drove around at redline in anything, I'm sure we'd see more problems.