"greg conner" <dodgeboy93@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Its not very likely the chain will break, but even if it does magnums are
: "noninterference" engines. meaning the valves will not come into contact
: with the pistons even if they are open when the piston is at tdc. Meaning
: if it breaks it wont go boom..will just stop running..lol
I don't know if this has any bearing on the discussion or not, but
when I accidentally shifted my 318 from 4th to 3rd at about 5,000 rpms
once (that's the sort of thing you only do ONCE) ;-) I bent three
valves. I assumed that the 318 was an interference engine because of
that, but I may be wrong.
---Jon-
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