VandykeT/A

If I leave them in will it hurt anything immediately? Pushrods are at a friends house and hes kinda hard to get ahold of.

99fbodyTA

wouldn't be ideal, but should work temporarily

Darkman

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The length may not cause much trouble immediately, but if those are stock unhardened pushrods and you are trying to push some high pressure springs (above 400 pounds open) I would not run it very long or very hard.

BOBS99SS

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what is the lift on the cam?are you going to leave in the stock springs? imo get another car to go get the springs, wouldnt even be a thought in my head to run it like that

prokilllsx

I had stock push rods in with a 226/226 and after finding 2nd instead of 4th a few times 3 of them were bent. Call me stupid, it's ok.

VandykeT/A

I've got another car to go get them he just works long hours and is hard to get in contact with to go pick them up. What I'm going to be doing is using a set of 10 thousandths milled 241s with the 650 lift prc springs and a torquer 2. When I went PRC 215s and MS4 on the T/A I had the torquer 2 and 241s left and he just forgot to send me the pushrods back when I picked my car and removed parts up. The car will be untuned for the drive home approx. 3 miles which would be the only distance it would be driven with the stock pushrods, very slowly to. I may be able to get ahold of him before tuesday or wednesday which is when I"m hoping to have my car back together by but if the worst happens would it be ok to drive it the 3 miles home as long as I take it easy?

redtan

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Might bend a few, but that's about it.

Johnnystock

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Take the bus or a cab. Why risk that??

99fbodyTA

it will be fine for a SMALL amount of light driving, nothing unnecessary though

garygnu

maybe meet him at his work .or have him leave the push rods some where hidden that only you know about.

johnnyfrc

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Had stock on my F15 cam...ran a few times and dyno good nums..but not for long though...

richard david

I have been running stock ones in mine for 2 years with a 234-246 cam turning it 7200 and have not bent one YET.

johnnyfrc

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cam is posted for sale sick na cam...made by futral motorsport...has 50 miles if that..and springs are alost new..too..625lift..

HoLLo

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I'm running stock 114k mile pushrods in my motor. Cam is a Patriot 225/229 .580/.590 114+4. Cam has about 30k miles on it. I spin to maybe 6700-6800 usually, and often. No valvetrain noise, still runs like a top. Stock lifters too!

99fbodyTA

damn that's suprising, but maybe it shouldn't be

badazz81z28

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Really? Its $100 man, buy some hardened pushrods

thunderstruck507

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I have pulled pushrods from 3 different stock ls1s, 2 manuals and an auto. All 3 had at least a couple slightly bent pushrods.

I wouldn't bother assembling it with them unless it was an emergency.

BadAndy

Even though the cam in my camaro was small, I would have used stock push rods with most cams unless the lift was really extreme. Put about 25,000 on mine with lots of racing and WOT, 0 problems. Something about keeping the push rods as the weakest link made sense to me. Cheap to replace, fairly easy to replace, not a mechanical disaster if they go bad, less damage to engine if they go bad than if some other part of the valve train goes bad. Obviously they just won't work in some applications.