67Dart273
Well-Known Member
I can think of all kinds of reasons why this is a REAL bad idea
First, your "John Force" buddy may have been having some fun with you
Let's set up a scenario. You are on a trip across the CA/ NV/ AZ desert, and you have the 'ol Wagon Truckster Family Queen loaded up pretty good, with the camp trailer hitched to the clamp - on bumper hitch back there.
It's a REAL hot day, the last gas stop you made might 'a had either more or less "stuff" in the fuel you bought, and .... it ain't up to the octane it should be....
And, oh, yeah, you have a headwind.
So what does all this mean? It means the engine is working itself to death, is on the verge of or well into detonation, and is running HOT.
MAYBE just maybe, your carefully planned "zero lash" just went away.
(Pause..............ask yourself WHAT COOLS a valve? Part of it is that WHEN IT IS CLOSED it can dissipate a little heat into the head which has water running through it)
But if your zero lash goes away, and a TINY amount of hot gas gets past, NOW you might as well stand in the backyard with a torch and heat up the valve.
It just might burn the valve, and now you have a SEVEN cylinder car, (or FIVE)
and now the REST of the working cylinders are producing EVEN MORE HEAT than earlier.
Guys, this nonsense of a quest for a silent engine will work great-----it will be REALLLY silent when the thing breaks.
First, your "John Force" buddy may have been having some fun with you
Let's set up a scenario. You are on a trip across the CA/ NV/ AZ desert, and you have the 'ol Wagon Truckster Family Queen loaded up pretty good, with the camp trailer hitched to the clamp - on bumper hitch back there.
It's a REAL hot day, the last gas stop you made might 'a had either more or less "stuff" in the fuel you bought, and .... it ain't up to the octane it should be....
And, oh, yeah, you have a headwind.
So what does all this mean? It means the engine is working itself to death, is on the verge of or well into detonation, and is running HOT.
MAYBE just maybe, your carefully planned "zero lash" just went away.
(Pause..............ask yourself WHAT COOLS a valve? Part of it is that WHEN IT IS CLOSED it can dissipate a little heat into the head which has water running through it)
But if your zero lash goes away, and a TINY amount of hot gas gets past, NOW you might as well stand in the backyard with a torch and heat up the valve.
It just might burn the valve, and now you have a SEVEN cylinder car, (or FIVE)
and now the REST of the working cylinders are producing EVEN MORE HEAT than earlier.
Guys, this nonsense of a quest for a silent engine will work great-----it will be REALLLY silent when the thing breaks.
