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Not long. You don't want to change out the valve springs without changing just about everything else on the kart.
Poboy kartman
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.........until it breaks, or mama calls you in for supper......
How long is a piece of string?
Will I hit the lottery?
Where will the next lightning strike hit?
This, and all these other questions are not easily answered. You have posted this in the wrong thread. Try posting it in the "Ask Poboy " thread.....where hypothetical and non-scientific opinionated personal questions are addressed.
How long is a piece of string?
Will I hit the lottery?
Where will the next lightning strike hit?
This, and all these other questions are not easily answered. You have posted this in the wrong thread. Try posting it in the "Ask Poboy " thread.....where hypothetical and non-scientific opinionated personal questions are addressed.
Well the only correct answer is:
"until something fails"
Something will fail.. and NO ONE can predict the time that'll take (can be a minute and a half, can be a year or two...)
depends on too many things, than one could ever think of..
a predator will likely fail sooner than a genuine Honda (quality of stock parts)
a well maintained engine will likely fail long after one that noone ever cared for (quality of service)
a ungoverned engine likely fails before one that's govened to 3.6k.
And a billet parts improved engine will likely withstand more abuse than an engine with only stock parts.
that's what you should expect..
(milage will vary.... and exceptions do occur!)
But even the slightest variant in air temp, humidity and/ or the quality of your airfilter can make all the difference between an hour of fun, and a lifetime of pain (having a conrod sticking out your back isn't something you'd want I guess)
So for your own sake, stay as safe as you can.
5500 rpms.. that's doable with stock springs... and what "we" would consider as being safe...
frankly.. change the valve springs back to stock.. just to be sure noone's ever going to cross that line by accident or stupidity.
'sid
"until something fails"
Something will fail.. and NO ONE can predict the time that'll take (can be a minute and a half, can be a year or two...)
depends on too many things, than one could ever think of..
a predator will likely fail sooner than a genuine Honda (quality of stock parts)
a well maintained engine will likely fail long after one that noone ever cared for (quality of service)
a ungoverned engine likely fails before one that's govened to 3.6k.
And a billet parts improved engine will likely withstand more abuse than an engine with only stock parts.
that's what you should expect..
(milage will vary.... and exceptions do occur!)
But even the slightest variant in air temp, humidity and/ or the quality of your airfilter can make all the difference between an hour of fun, and a lifetime of pain (having a conrod sticking out your back isn't something you'd want I guess)
So for your own sake, stay as safe as you can.
5500 rpms.. that's doable with stock springs... and what "we" would consider as being safe...
frankly.. change the valve springs back to stock.. just to be sure noone's ever going to cross that line by accident or stupidity.
'sid
Im jst scared dat i will explode if i dont like change the valve springs or something nd d engin is a gx 390 honda clone so im good with stock parts till 5500rpms right??
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Then how long can that take me. Can it give me up to 6hrs of Continuous drive time
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Then how long can that take me. Can it give me up to 6hrs of Continuous drive time
first: kill that spider on your keyboard
second: noone will guarantee anything..
You can wait until someone says "yes" to finally mute your question,
but the valid answer remains the same, we don't know and we wouldn't bet on it.
it's your spine, your kart... your choice.
If your scared that it'd explode in your back, then it wasn't the brightest idea to change to heavier springs in the first place, was it?
Oh and if you just bypassed the governor instad of completely removing it's internals..
then yes you're scared for very good reason!
We can guarantee you catastrophic failure in that case.
So..you can rephrase the question again, but frankly there's no point.
six hours, six days, six minutes, six weeks, six seconds..
catastrophic failure can happen within one single revolution (that's 0.01 second)
don't ask us which revolution it'll be.
Or let me put it another way:
'sid
second: noone will guarantee anything..
You can wait until someone says "yes" to finally mute your question,
but the valid answer remains the same, we don't know and we wouldn't bet on it.
it's your spine, your kart... your choice.
If your scared that it'd explode in your back, then it wasn't the brightest idea to change to heavier springs in the first place, was it?
Oh and if you just bypassed the governor instad of completely removing it's internals..
then yes you're scared for very good reason!
We can guarantee you catastrophic failure in that case.
So..you can rephrase the question again, but frankly there's no point.
six hours, six days, six minutes, six weeks, six seconds..
catastrophic failure can happen within one single revolution (that's 0.01 second)
don't ask us which revolution it'll be.
Or let me put it another way:
I never juggled with running chainsaws..
How many times can I catch one safely?
How many times can I catch one safely?
'sid
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that line right there...perfection my friend.
Put the stock springs back in. They "float" at around 5500 rpms, acting as a secondary gov'na, gov'na.
In other words with the stock springs the engine shouldn't get passed 55-5600ish rpms, which is good if you have all stock parts. Stock rods tend to fail in short order when you get into higher rpms.
When you replaced he stock springs with heavier ones you allowed the engine to Rev to higher rpms. Very bad for stock parts, it WILL FAIL, and it will hurt when it does (either your pocket book, or YOU)
Now we're not saying that it won't fail with stock springs, but the chances of anything failing is SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED per our experiences.
Also, always make sure you properly remove the gov'na, and don't just bypass it. If you just bypass it then the chances of it exploding inside the engine is VERY HIGH, almost guaranteed.
Listen to sid, the advice is sound.
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