"I suspect when he says “30” it means 3000 RPM. It’s say 30 on the guage but in small print will say “x 1000.”
Hmmm…By my calculations, 30 x 1,000 = 30,000, not 3,000.
However, it’s been a long time since I was in 4th grade, so I could be wrong.
;-))
In any event, the OP is mistaken about the engine’s RPMs, as I stated in the first post in this thread.