Originally Posted by PRR
> And it's not a shitty Ford
Hmmmmm..... I'm an old Ford guy. A properly prepared Windsor will rev to 8,000 RPM and hold it for days. In 1963, Ford took a trio of "stock" Galaxies to Daytona and held them at 100MPH (about 80% of full power) for 100,000 miles (6 weeks of 24/7) without failure. And yet: I took my '79 over 3,500RPM, once, and it quit. A 2-cent weight came loose in the distributor, jammed it, broke the cam gear. A rebuilt dist was only $34 so no big deal except I had to get towed home. Ford's big parts are 99.9% tough, but you really have to check for "minor" flaws. Honda builds them right, even the little parts.
I can't believe you took the time to reply to the first one
As for this one...take it from a mechanical engineer who has personally witnessed 3 Ford engines self destruct because they can't handle sustained performance testing. Ford puts as little money as possible into everything they do. They figure it's cheaper to tell a customer he was beating his engine too hard and it deserved to die than to use stronger valves or better manufacturing methods and/or materials in their engines.