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Originally Posted by dwalmop
yeah I know - but it's fun to go out and give it a workout sometimes!
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Yesterday when it did it, I had my eye squarely on the tach, cuz I was wondering what kinda revs it hits when it double-downshifts on a good hard stomp. I was in an outside double left turn lane, coming onto a highway on ramp. When it let go, it bounced off the limiter a couple of times before I got my foot off the pedal, saw the needle jump over 6000
I hate hearing a motor free-rev. When I was about 18 or 19 I had a '68 Bel Air Custom with a 396, I had the carb off for a rebuild, and the thought struck me, "Can a motor run without a carb?"
So I splashed a little gas in the intake plenum, and hit the key. It instantly buried the tach, it may have hit nine or ten grand for all I know. I shut it off right away, it still took about 10 seconds to wind down. I'll never forget that sound. You know the hollow bellow of the secondaries opening on a four barrel carb? Multiply that by about 10x and you'd be close. I'm suprised it didn't suck the asbestos blanket off the underside of the hood.
Damn lifters clattered for days after that. Guess I was lucky they weren't buried in the walls and ceiling of the garage! An amazing amount of carbon came out of the exhaust onto the ground. Two big black circles stained the floor, a permanent monument to curious stupidity.
