PhantomTA

I have a question..

Did you get Lash caps with your pushrods?

Also, if any of you have the new dual spring setup have to clearence your stock rockers so they didnt hit?

FSTR-THANU

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Dave, you know I have ARE heads on both my cars. Stage II came with lash caps and Stage I came without. The big springs did require some clearancing but I have a solid roller so unless you are considering that route you will not need it. No clearancing required for a basic hyd cam. Shoot me an email and we can discuss my set-up on either car!

Tom

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PhantomTA

Well Tom,

Apprearantly you need to clearence the rockers with the "new" valve springs..

i DO NOT like this idea..

My Stage 2 something heads and pushrods needed 80thou lash caps...

Seems i guessed wrong on the size of caps too.. lol.. that was my fault.. dont ask..

a stock pushrod is 7.400 ..

The ones i have are 7.250

And with a .080 cap that still doesnt = 7.350

isnt that a little short?

Then again i understand i have or SHOULD have more than 30 off the head cause i wanted 11 or as close as possible compression..

Anyways, just being paranoid i think..

any thoughts?

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NoGo

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Uh oh. I am due to get my ARE H/C package here in about a week. From the sounds of it, the same thing you have y2kz28. I will be doing the install myself, but in all of the directions that I have read, I have not run into anything regarding the lash caps or clearencing the rockers.

Is there anyplace that I can look to get a better idea what you guys are talking about. The last thing I want is a surprise when I get this thing together.

NoGo

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Anybody?

Disclaimer: Not engine retarded. Just not very familiar with clearencing the rockers.

y2kz28

Dave,

I got .060 lash caps with my package. I found them in the bottom of the box AFTER I had everything together. I've got the dual spring setup (K-800's according to Nick), and haven't had any problems. There's a picture of the springs with rockers and caps installed somewhere at my photo site below.

Kirk

Visceral

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Yeah...if you have 1.45" or great diameter springs, you are gonna have to clearance the rockers. Done it lots of times now and no problems. I *really* wish jmX and I had taken a photo of what needs to be clearanced. It really isnt a big deal. I think I recall that there are 2 curved portions that you dremmel away to make it a more square corner. Then you are done. Doesnt appear to weaken the rocker. And if you do it with a fast enough dremel with a nice bit, you arent going to introduce cracks. Just takes about 45 minutes for all 16 if you take your time.

\chris

y2kz28

I didn't do this - I wonder why Nick didn't mention this to me when I talked to him about the caps.