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Vir Campestris wrote:
On 17/11/2016 15:58, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Simon Mason wrote:

He actually missed a gear and floored it in neutral.

Still a bad design if that broke it.

No limiters in those days.

All engines have limiters. Once the valves can no longer follow the
camshaft (valve float). But you won't break an engine by doing that -
unless you ignored the racket and carried on for some time. What is far
more likely is vastly over speeding the engine by selecting a low gear at
speed. That can easily take the engine speed well above what it could
achieve on its own.

And this is an Alfa - great fun, but not reliable.

Thought their one claim to fame was decent engines - in those days.

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