i am putting together a 96 ls motor with some gsr pistons and all new gaskets, rings, rod bearing, crower cams(not much lift) and arp head bolts. i am wanting to get my ecu reflashed so i could hit a little high rpms and i was wondering what is a safe rev for the motor without stretching the rodbolts and ruining the valvetrain

 

7400 is absolute max i would go on a ls~
stock valvetrain
also factor in when the cams stop making power
its useless to rev to 10k rpm if the car stops making power at 7k

 

the cams stop making power at like 8 i have heard, they are used cams. they have been in a all motor ls


Modified by the DA in HONDA at 7:01 PM 1/31/2005

 

before i went to lsv i got 404s w/springs on and i take it to 8

 

anyone else got a thought on this, would it be reliable to take to 7400 every once in a while...bump bump

 

why would u get GSR pistons? those wont raise the compression ratio up too much. Get B16 pistons (PR3) or jdm B16 (P30) pistons for better compression.

Im run n crower 403's with crower springs and retainers. redline is at 7200 right now. will shift it up to 7500 after i put in my ARP rod bolts and P30 pistons. go n to the dyno after this to see where these cams stop making power. i dyno'd my car a month ago with the stock 6800 rev limit and the cams were still make n power.

do u have springs and reatiners (or just springs), then i would rev it to about 7200-7400 is u have springs. if u get arp rod bolts, then u can rev to high 7's or wherever these cams stop make n power.

if u have stock valve springs then i wouldnt raise the stock rev limit more than a few hundred rpms (about 200).