watch the video, its amazing how often mistakes made during the assembly process that should have been routinely checked and verified come back to bite you in the ass, and ruin the engines power potential, or reduce that engines durability
testing valve springs
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sellecting valve springs, and setting up the valve train
How do you determine the spring pressure needed to keep the valves under control for a given lift, duration, and max rpm. It might take you several hours to read thru all the links and sub links but its time very well spent as it could save your engine from destruction and save you thousands of...
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finding matched valve spring required
Heres what i have, I need some valve spring help 1.800 installed .770 ID 1.555 OD Hyd flat tappet 130 lbs on the seat 300 lbs open .521 lift dual spring preferred So far I have called Comp, Lunati, Crower and Crane with no luck. Anyone know of a spring that will work? OBVIOUSLY YOULL WANT...
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valve spring installation questions
I am in the process of installing the required springs recommended for my cam on my vortec heads. My first question is, on a cast iron head do I need to add a hardened steel shim to every spring pocket to protect the head or can I install a spring directly against the spring cup if the installed...
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change in valve spring iinstalled height?
=" 64ausbelair"] Hi all. I was in need of some tech teaching or advice on springs. I have a hydraulic lifter camshaft that suggests springs that have an installed height of 1.7 giving a seat pressure of 105. I was also looking at a set of trick flow super 23 heads which come assembled with three...
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valve springs loads and installed height
Soon I'll be doing a mostly stock rebuild of the original 327/300 from my '65 Impala, using a mild (216/228 @ .050" dur., .454"/.480" lift) hydraulic Crane cam. I've been advised that Crane springs tend to be too strong for street use and will probably wear the cam prematurely. Is this true, and...
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sellecting valve springs, and setting up the valve train
read thru these links and their sub links https://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/reasonably-safe-valve-train-clearance-for-new-383-sbc-cam-instal.13109/#post-110492 https://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/valve-train-clearances-and-problems.528/...
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