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Old 10-31-2008, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Fordzilla View Post
My 2 cents: I've seen agriculture 427s without cross bolt mains. (Farm Combine motors) I have spun cammers at 9000 rpm with no problems. Dove manufacturing tells me they are spinning FEs at 9000 rpm with no problems. They are turning the crank journals down & running Chevy rods. If I recall correctly they said Chevy off the shelf "500" rods. I thought that was interesting.
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Yep, Scat and others are using BBC rods and accompanying crank journals for their FE stuff. I'm sure it helps to keep costs down, a good thing actually.

Yes sir, them short stroke FEs can really spin. Give me a long crank arm and a boat load of torue in my tea though..
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