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Old 03-29-2014, 10:20 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Cobb View Post
...Many cases I end up sleeving the thing as you lugged the engine and scraped the oil film off the side of your cylinders...
2500 rpm is hardly "lugging". Do you have any actual data on this? We DO know it is how you get the most efficiency out of an engine. Folks been driving like this for decades and 100s of thousands of miles so I'm not sure you have the cause and effect completely sorted yet.
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