How to determine a safe red-line?

lurchs66cuda said
Run it at a drag strip on a good consistent day and try different shift points. What harmonic balancer is on the 360? stock, aftermarket, internally balanced...

As for the oil pressure being 64ish PSI reved up, is your bypass spring letting unfiltered oil by? The oil is to help cool the internals along with lubricating obviously, but if it's being forced through the system at a higher rate is it able to attempt to cool? Kind of like not running a thermostat for the coolant, if beat on long enough it may overheat.

I like the seat of the pants feel for the shift point or the certain tone of the exhaust at that point, but these responses will vary from person to person.....:)

I have the stock balancer that I got the engine with, but next time I'll got to the track and mess with shift points, and get a gmeter out like suggested and chart everything.

As for the oil pressure, I don't think its open, but how would I know? the pressure still goes up as the revs go up from there, it doesn't stay there constantly (unless constant RPM). Cold I have about 76 PSI at idle, and goes down quite a bit as it gets warm. I have a HV oil pump and I'm running rotella 15:40 with a zinc additive, so that stuff is pretty thick when its cold. And the car doesn't overheat at all, the temp doesn't even fluctuate.