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Dominik
Your friend's M8F is seriously out of wack or something.

I have many seat hours on the VDS Teddy Pillette M8F6-72 and you can be sure it takes full throttle in 3rd, 4th and 5th anywhere on the track. It has an 850hp 8.2 liter all alloy fuel-injected CBB, with a highly upgraded LG600, all modern CV joints and takes full power once the AVON tires are hot.

Where is he located, if you would? I can help him get it correct, if he wishes. That should not be happening unless something is quite wrong and in that car, anything wrong is not safe.

For instance, we had to remove the rev limiter for the last race at Daytona, even though we had the largest pinion drive ratio that would fit in the Hewland case. We were bumping the limiter half way down the front and back straights.

In the end, the last 5 or 6 laps saw 8250 rpm on that big block before braking and we recorded 215 MPH! That would never have happened unless we could use full power all the way from the bus stop exit on the back section to the front "straight" shut down point.

Of course, with the downforce that body generates, given the side air dams and all, we were firmly riding on the front bump stops. Pretty strange ride over the twin bumps formed by the twin tunnel infield entrances in the last turn just before the front straight. I kept thinking about how thin the tire carcases were, although new and how the bumps could throw the nose in the air an inch or two and lose underbody low pressure.

Of course, when the engine was disassembled for OH, we found considerable damage, but at least it didn't break on the last race of the season.

What a car and what an engine.