Originally posted by TheShow50h
well i dont know how to explain it ... but i have witnesses and ive done it at least 4 or 5 times when i first got the car .. havnt missed a gear in quite some time now though. but the real point of the story is my 5.0 keeping up with a badass car, good death by me, considering it's a $3,000 car with about $700 in performance parts.
You may have witnesses but you are not actually spinning it to 7k rpms. What I was saying is the stock tach is normally WAY off as the revs go up. On my 87 lx I could shift at 6800 on the stock tach and it was only really 6000.
Seriously, 7k on stock valvetrain just won't last, especially if you have any mileage on the engine.
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