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Originally Posted by leathermang
"No offense but these old cars are not jet engines or F1 cars."
No offense Hatterasguy.....but our cars have almost twice the compression ratio of those F1 cars ....and don't get taken apart between every race... not even every decade.... if done properly...
Sounds like you are too young to have experienced some of the off the wall mechanical things some of us have.... and we swear we are not going to repeat them.... thus we start trying to learn what works and what does not...
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Lets see F1 engines displace about 3 liters run to 18k+ rpm and put out around 700hp(I think) Yeah next time I am running my 603 at 220mph I will just hope a piston doesn't fly out of the hood because some German was a little to tight on the rod cap bolts.
I have used a torque wrench on my IP seals and injectors and other sensitive parts. Other than that tight is good enough I know how to tighten a bolt enough not to have problems. Sorry my MB is not a rocket ship if my shock bolts are 18nm insted of 20 I know my car will just explode.
Signing off and getting back to the real world of working on old rusty MB's.
12-09-2004, 02:39 PM
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