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Originally Posted by blykins
Just because someone runs an engine for years and years and "doesn't have a problem" doesn't lend much data for experience. I had a pair of Federal Mogul bearings de-laminate in a BBC that I built. I don't know if a piece of trash passed through or what, but I had no indication that anything was wrong at all on the dyno. No increase in oil temperature, no decrease in oil pressure, nada. I didn't know anything until I checked the filter. My gut says that engine would probably have run for a long time and no one would have ever known the difference.
But, opinions are like.........blah blah blah.....  |
As I mentioned above, I had a Chevy 396, 427, 454 and a 540 built in the decades that I owned my '66 Corvette Convertible. And that car sat for LONG PERIODS. Each engine was sold and each engine was inspected and ultimately torn down because they were raced after my ownership. Everyone in my peer network always wanted my "old" engines because they knew my "old" engines were in primo condition. That's my proof.
