Well Red, as God is my witness it WILL happen and I certainly look forward on sharing my future beast of a car with you all! *Evil laugh* *Evil laugh* I do think that if I've got it in the budget then I will put in the light weight crank only for integrity reasons. I figure it will be less wear on the motor all together with less mass spinnin' around. Another question is what about engine bearings? Are there any aftermarket insanely smooth engine bearings that anyone knows about. I just want to try and put the best S**T in this motor while it's apart so it lasts as long as possible.

 

cnk has bearings but i don't know of the quality??

Oh and rasing the redline.. I thought that the HLA's don't like a high reving engine.

HLA + High RPM = trouble!!!!!!

 

Tell that to the DSM crowd that revs the 4G63 with HLA's to 8000-8500.

 

oh!!
Thanks for the instance random.
I was reading an old post from the SR forum the other night and (no name) gave a calculation for this, you corrected him on the calculation and the topic finished off with saying that HLA's don't like hi reving engines.

Guess not anymore, i will throw that theory out of my head.
suicide you learn something every day lol

 

Random.. dsm do use HLA.. but they aren't sandwiched between the cam and valves like ours.... so they see less loads and their weight doesn't affect valve train weight, but hey. .it can be done... old v-8 will spin up to 7200 rpm will hla....

 

When the beta's run into problems at high rpm, it isn't the valve train that get's damaged/flys apart, it is the bottom of the motor. So the HLA's don't mind the high rev's as much as I had previously thought.

Alz99 We ALL learn new things! The highest reving beta i've heard of was through Cheuk. He stated it survived 8500, but the bottom end flew apart at around 8750.

For those of you worried about HLA's, you can always convert over to the Beta2 head with MLA's.

 

You could also put a beta1 head on a beta2, if you
were that way inclined....

[ February 28, 2003, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: bryfx ]

 

I "think" I know what HLA and MLA stand for but could someone please reassure me on this?