Negative on building the pipe for this. We scored that pipe off ebay. It looked modified as is.
As for the RPM range, It's high up there, but it's not a light switch or needle skinny. It peaks, I'd guess around 10,500 RPM. That's were we typically build around. The edge of the engines safer limits. It's starts getting real hairy after that. Ring flutter becomes a problem and you exceed the safe 4000ft/s acceleration for forged pistons.
I'll have to locate the beat up rechambered head. It's got a beautiful ring that matches up to the piston. And it wasn't detonation!
The head I'm looking at building will have much better cooling and allow me to run more compression safely. I know what I'm going to say already exist, but imma do it. I'm creating a liquid cooled head. It'll cost me much less to manufacture one than it would be to buy or even have ours rechambered. I also don't trust the machinest to follow the specs I'll need. This is a quick peak of my current idea. I havn't calculated the squish yet.
This will be a 2 part casted head There's more to be done (like the top lol), I just started modeling it yesterday.
I'm at work, doing this on down time. I wish i had the measurements of the bolt holes! It's also being set up to use a stock head gasket and o-rings to seal the lid up (once drawn). The o-rings sizes i used are readily avaliable at autostores.
I know what your thinking. Theres no water pump. But alas! That's in the works too.
