This topic is never going to be laid-to-rest .....

Bearing and rod-side clearances ? .... ALL of this is a "leak" in the chain. For someone to say that there is no diff in this RSC "leak" between 10 and 60 ....... is uNsane !

WHO was talking about 007 ? .... WJ. And IIRC ...from that article ... he ran a steel rod motor at 11 all the time.