Quote Originally Posted by 1gary View Post
Charlie-the second dyno sym that Richard ran for me was close to the same numbers.I do wish it was some more HP,but that is just me wanting his cake and eating it too.
Yeah, I sure miss the high rpm zing of the previous engine. And I'm no fan of externally balanced engines in super light cars. 1st attempt at getting this engine built resulted in too much vibration that more than likely would have gone un-noticed in a 5000 lb truck. But one thing that is truly fun to do to a friend with this engine and that is when on a deserted, limited access highway, slowly creep up to around 120 mph in the 0.64 OD top gear, and when your friends realize the speed and freaks a bit, you can roll it all on without downshifting, asking him if he wants you to pull a gear to really see what it will do? At 120 in top gear, I'm at my torque peak of 2800 rpms (I'm very talled geared) so I hope he says "no" because if I did pull that gear, the jig would be up because at that speed it would pull harder in the top OD gear, but most people have never experianced an engine with the peak torque so low in rpms. This engine's hp starts falling off at just 4050 rpms.