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| | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,755 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,755 | I've seen the valves float on a stovebolt engine occasionally- - - - -but only if it was installed in a boat. Getting a street engine up to valve-floating RPM might be possible, wide open in granny gear on a SM-420. Otherwise it's pretty unlikely. Stretching or breaking one of those limp spaghetti connecting rods would probably happen first.
Jerry
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Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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