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Old May 19, 2006 | 11:52 PM
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I was just wondering the best rockers and pushrods to go with the GM Hot Cam for the LS1?
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Stock rockers and any hardened pushrod. A hardened pushrod is a hardened pushrod. Alot of the companies buy them from the same place and put their name on them.
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u might want to take this post to internal ull get more answers in there
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u might want to take this post to internal ull get more answers in there


Allow me....


BTW - Don't run hardened pushrods with stock valvesprings, it could spell disaster.
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BTW - Don't run hardened pushrods with stock valvesprings, it could spell disaster.
Why's that?
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Why's that?

You shouldn't be running stock LS1 valve springs anyways. For that cam, you can run LS6 springs and hardened pushrods.
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Originally Posted by Bigdeezs
Why's that?
Because if the valves ever hit the pistions (mis-shift/over-rev), it will bend them instead of the hardened pushrods.

I'd rather change pushrods than valves.
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Originally Posted by Redneck Z
You shouldn't be running stock LS1 valve springs anyways. For that cam, you can run LS6 springs and hardened pushrods.
I think a set of comp 918 springs are the hot ticket for this guy, they are cheap and much nicer than the LS6 springs, which might still let a valve get bent on a mis-shift/overrev.
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918's are the way to go.
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Originally Posted by Redneck Z
You shouldn't be running stock LS1 valve springs anyways. For that cam, you can run LS6 springs and hardened pushrods.
Silly me I was thinking hardened pushrods with stock cam and springs not with the hotcam
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Keep the stock rockers. Any 7.4 hardened pushrod will work.
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