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Rocker arm = spacers vs. springs??? 140-160

posted by  someone claiming to be anthony on  Fri Apr 16 07:11 CST 2004 [RELATED]

After cleaning the rocker assembly, I played with it alttle. It sure seems like those springs pushing the rockers rob quite abit of power... I'm sure this would be some kind of a limitation to the valve train.
So I thought about making some spacers from aluminium with bronze ends to take away the play instead of using those springs. I can make these parts myself, but I am thinking if there would be any down-sides to this?
I'm quite sure this would make the valves require much less power to open/close... what do you guys think? (Maybe a little step closer to roller rockers...haha.)


Cheers.






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