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Old 04-05-2011, 10:33 PM
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does anyone have any pics of what they did to get them to fit with the arp head studs

I will be getting different ones eventually but wanna try and run stockers for now
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Don't need to clearance them for studs any more than head bolts, but for 1.6RRs on 7/16 rocker studs, you can do this:

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well it seems like the bottom of the VC bolt holes are hitting on the washers, can i cut off the bottom of the vc bolt tubes?
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No great harm in doing that, but you should be able to just grind the sides a bit without completely removing them.
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