Originally Posted by
Chip
Mountune know all about building race engines to last a couple of thousand miles at most, the effects Karl is talking about with pulling the block out of shape are based on long term use on the road.
So depending on which type of engine you are building (race car, high loads short durations, or road car) I would change who I took advice from as they each know more about one thing than the other.
at the end of the day chip, i and lots of engine builders have been using long studs now for a very long time and in all this time on a lot of these engines we havent encountered the problems that you and others are on about,infact i know of several big powered engines that are still going now and have been in competion use for over 10 years also do you think a yb mountune have built just gets thrown away after a few k???of course it doesnt it gets built again and again...
you can beleive what you want but as said if your building a yb with more than 400bhp and the scope to go higher why not just give it its best chance by long studding it????
cheers danny