RE: [Chevelle-List] Redline - the max?

[Craig A. Ellis]

You can feel it - when the power stops building (you're still accelerating, but you can feel the thrust ease up) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chad P. Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] Redline - the max? what should it be set at?  How can you tell the end of the powerband?  Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] Redline - the max? 4000?  I've never seen a redline that low.  I shif the 454 in my 70 at 5500, although I know it can handle 6500, but there is no sense taking it that high b/c it's out of it's powerband at that rate.  I used to shift the 307 in my 86 Cutlass at 5000, and now that I put the 350 SBC in it, I shift it at 5200.  Even the tach in my cousins 88 Monte Carlo with a 305 isn't that low. Tom