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Old Jul 1, 2008 | 04:58 PM
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Well after a few months of waiting the engine has gone back in my TA today.
I had cnc ported and valve job ls6 heads matched, with a TR224 112lsa, new timing chain, ported oil pump, underdrive pulley and port and polished TB installed.
1. The only part on the heads I did not replace was the rocker arms, just used the stock ones. Was this a bad thing?

2. The car is going in for a dyno tune next week. Will I need to have the crank position relearned on the car and is it bad to drive the car with out a tune done.

Thanks for any anwsers.

BTW If anyone is running the same set up as me what are you running the quarter mile in? I was hoping for high 11's
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Old Jul 1, 2008 | 05:10 PM
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i can only answer the first question.
the old rockers are great, they are fine to re-use.

that tr224 cam is a fast ramp cam and dose not need the use of 1.8 rocker.

as for the 2nd question.. I dont know, but someone on here will.
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Old Jul 1, 2008 | 05:26 PM
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1. No, stock rockers work fine.
2. Cant hurt since you swapped the cam. Relearn takes about 10 seconds to do anyway, very simple. Driving a 224 cam untuned is no big deal, the fuel trims will compensate for any variances.
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Old Jul 1, 2008 | 05:41 PM
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Thanks, The last time I had the relearn done I just had the transmission place across the street do it for me for free. Guess I will hit them first thursday and the dyno next week. I thought I could reuse the rockers but got a little worried when the shop asked me where the new rockers were at since I replaced everything on the top end of the engine. I will post numbers after the dyno.
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