Re: Driving cars hard (high rpm's)

[Alex Tomic <atomic7@home.com>]

At 08:41 AM 8/25/98 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>Hmmm...
>    Just thinking...
>    I've always sortof thought that high rpm's wasn't necessarily taking a
lot of
>life out of your engine. I mean, I dunno... I'm sure that VERY high rpm's
are bad,
>etc, but I used to drive my old '83 (the one with like 350K miles on it)
up at
>high rpm's all the time because that's the only place it had any power.
Down low
>there was nothing left (110psi compression per cylinder... it was dying...
but who
>could blame it?), so I ran it up to approx. 6500 rpm on a regular basis.
That was
>where it had power- below 4800 rpm or so there wasn't anything to speak of...
>    I always run my engines up high, and I always change the oil regularly
and
>make sure that it's at the correct level, etc, and generally just take
good care
>of my cars, but I beat on them, too. But they always last me and don't
seem to
>show any premature signs of wear. But then again, I've only driven a total of
>100,000 miles on 10 cars so far in my life, so I haven't had any one car
for very
>long...
>    Maybe running cars up that high IS really bad? I never really thought
it was.
>I mean, I know people THINK it is, but is it really?
>    -Josiah

I don't know.. its a good question... and unfortunately all we have to go
on is pretty much just anecdotal evidence... I guess this is where
synthetic oil comes into play.

I figure tho, i'd rather have fun with my engine (i.e. redlining) and have
it last 300,000 km, than baby a car and have it last 500,000km... I mean,
most American/Japanese cars don't last past 250,000km up here (canada)
anyways...

Alex Tomic - Monkey #37 -   "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?"
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