A piece of Katech history is up on eBay for a fraction of the original cost
06-24-2010, 03:57 PM
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A piece of Katech history is up on eBay for a fraction of the original cost
I thought you guys might like to see this.
Last edited by ERND IT; 06-24-2010 at 04:27 PM. Reason: 2. No eBay links to promote/aid a sale. No links or references to eBay sales or other auction or sales sites are permitted.
06-24-2010, 04:29 PM
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sorry - forum rules state:
2. No eBay links to promote/aid a sale.
No links or references to eBay sales or other auction or sales sites are permitted. If the sale is appropriate for the Forum, post it on the Forum, rather than linking to it elsewhere.
just send the link via PM or email to anyone who is interested...
2. No eBay links to promote/aid a sale.
No links or references to eBay sales or other auction or sales sites are permitted. If the sale is appropriate for the Forum, post it on the Forum, rather than linking to it elsewhere.
just send the link via PM or email to anyone who is interested...
06-24-2010, 10:40 PM
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I'd be the envy of everyone on my block though.
06-25-2010, 08:54 AM
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sorry, guys - not trying to make anyone mad, especially our supporting vendors....just doing my "moderator duty" by trying to follow the posted rules
06-25-2010, 09:01 AM
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I didn't intend to break the rules. I just linked it because I thought the forum would find it interesting.
06-25-2010, 09:54 AM
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06-25-2010, 11:13 AM
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I discuss the C5-R block in my recent article in the August Corvette Fever magazine. I have a picture of the engine on my web site RaceCars360.
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06-25-2010, 01:01 PM
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06-25-2010, 01:53 PM
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4,000 miles... At race speeds at LeMans or Daytona that's one 24 hour race and practice, or about 30 hours.. Probalby more if the races are slower, but it isn't more than 60 hours is my bet. And remember it's been rebuilt once already (at 5000 miles), so maybe it has a total of 100 hours on the block and heads. While that's a decent amount of racing time, you have to consider that it also isn't run at full power for all of each lap. Probably more like 80% of the time is at full power. More importantly, in road racing, you "breathe" the engine every time you slow down for a corner, so you don't see high thermal stress because the power isn't kept on continuously, like it is in a boat or an airplane. So you are looking at an engine of something like 60 or seventy hours at full power per rebuild. That's not a lot of time on a aircraft or marine engine, but it is a lot for a race car engine. Just goes to show that when you get that high a specific output from a engine it isn't going to last for a long time even if you put tons of good parts in it, like this engine obviously has.
06-25-2010, 05:32 PM
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Let's think about this for a minute and put this into persepctive...
4,000 miles... At race speeds at LeMans or Daytona that's one 24 hour race and practice, or about 30 hours.. Probalby more if the races are slower, but it isn't more than 60 hours is my bet. And remember it's been rebuilt once already (at 5000 miles), so maybe it has a total of 100 hours on the block and heads. While that's a decent amount of racing time, you have to consider that it also isn't run at full power for all of each lap. Probably more like 80% of the time is at full power. More importantly, in road racing, you "breathe" the engine every time you slow down for a corner, so you don't see high thermal stress because the power isn't kept on continuously, like it is in a boat or an airplane. So you are looking at an engine of something like 60 or seventy hours at full power per rebuild. That's not a lot of time on a aircraft or marine engine, but it is a lot for a race car engine. Just goes to show that when you get that high a specific output from a engine it isn't going to last for a long time even if you put tons of good parts in it, like this engine obviously has.
4,000 miles... At race speeds at LeMans or Daytona that's one 24 hour race and practice, or about 30 hours.. Probalby more if the races are slower, but it isn't more than 60 hours is my bet. And remember it's been rebuilt once already (at 5000 miles), so maybe it has a total of 100 hours on the block and heads. While that's a decent amount of racing time, you have to consider that it also isn't run at full power for all of each lap. Probably more like 80% of the time is at full power. More importantly, in road racing, you "breathe" the engine every time you slow down for a corner, so you don't see high thermal stress because the power isn't kept on continuously, like it is in a boat or an airplane. So you are looking at an engine of something like 60 or seventy hours at full power per rebuild. That's not a lot of time on a aircraft or marine engine, but it is a lot for a race car engine. Just goes to show that when you get that high a specific output from a engine it isn't going to last for a long time even if you put tons of good parts in it, like this engine obviously has.
