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Wildman_grafix 05-20-2011 12:15 PM


Originally Posted by Knot 4 Me (Post 3408199)
Brad said the rest of the motors looked fine. He had a compression and leak down test done in 2010 and everything looked good. However, I told him that he was still running the risk of breaking a valve spring so he decided to have the heads pulled. Then Brad convinced him to go 522's!! I think you could go 250 - 300 on heads and then run another 250 -300 before doing the bottom ends. We tease my buddy that his throttles could be replaced with an "ON/OFF" switch so his almost 300 hours were hard hours.

Thanks good info.

soonenough 05-20-2011 12:26 PM

I know of guys that have ran the piss out of there 500's and have over 600hrs on them without being opened up...fwiw

REDS32 05-20-2011 12:35 PM

Where did they get the motors never never land!!!

soonenough 05-20-2011 02:14 PM


Originally Posted by REDS32 (Post 3408347)
Where did they get the motors never never land!!!

yep:rolleyes:

rudaluda 06-03-2011 11:50 PM

What is this never never land all about? Just a newbie here and curious too :)

PhantomChaos 06-03-2011 11:53 PM


Originally Posted by rudaluda (Post 3419966)
What is this never never land all about? Just a newbie here and curious too :)

Dunno......typo?


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