I've always run my 2.1 at 4500 rpm on the freeway (85 mph). I figured it
was safe because the tach was painted green up to that point. Was I
wrong?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> jimt
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:55 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Safe 2.1/1.9 Rpm: survey/query
> 
> On 10/10/04 11:16 AM, "Jeff at Vanagonparts" <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
wrote:
> 
> >   Just trying to judge what I can ask of my vehicle, really. Would
love
> to
> > hear from all the rebuilding heavy hitters out there. Can't exclude
> Subies
> > and I4's, but I only have the engine I have, and am trying to make
the
> most
> > of it.
> With the subie the redline goes up about 1k and the overrev goes up
about
> 1k
> as well.  With the L4 conversions a lot depends on which variation you
are
> using.  Some of the older L4 have about the same limits as the WB
engine.
> 
> Personally if you have a functional engine I would run it until it had
> reached its limit.  I did that with my original aircooled engine.
However
> after boiling the oil too often I decided to do the change ahead of
> schedule
> before I killed the poor beast.  Even an oil cooler wasn�t much help
for
> some of my trips.
> 
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