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Ben, you may have 1 of the only "wild thirteens" in the USA ! Quite the accomplishment indeed , looking forward to your video.

Thanks Bruce! with all this tuning to get my D12 to perform efficient and low drag....I can only imagine what will happen if I fire it with a full head of Steam!!...My tuned D5 can hit some pretty crazy no load RPM on steam...with double the Power and double the Smoothness...I expect she will Earn her nickname of "Wild Thirteen"!!
  I don't like to run them very often at max "no load" speed...however...It might be fun to get a Tachometer just to see what she is capable of? I am guessing it could easily hit 4000 RPM but I really have no idea....