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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 01:31 PM
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My lift is .630" with the 1.8 rockers not before. But if you have titanium or hollow valves this would make a difference in your combination and mine. My motor will turn that high we did it several times on the dyno but the power just drops instantly at about 6500rpm buy the time it reachs 6700 it loses 75hp or more.
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by 3timeracin
My lift is .630" with the 1.8 rockers not before. But if you have titanium or hollow valves this would make a difference in your combination and mine. My motor will turn that high we did it several times on the dyno but the power just drops instantly at about 6500rpm buy the time it reachs 6700 it loses 75hp or more.
That is a very interesting problem. I am using hollow stem valves. My dyno is an upward slop until it hits the rev limiter. What size injectors are you using? Is it possible you are maxing them out at that point?
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 04:31 PM
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42lb SVO green monsters
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 04:51 PM
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That's what I have and I dont have any problems. I am also using a stock L76 intake that everyone else seems to have so many problems with. I did have some issues when it was being tune, with the irridium plugs I had originally gone with. i changed over to ngk tr55's and completely fixed that problem I was having.
I can see where you are stumped on this problem.
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 08:50 PM
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All fixed changed rockers on exhaust back to 1.7 and makes power to 7000rpm I also shimmed the springs .030" too so who knows wich was the problem ?
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Great to hear.
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 03:34 PM
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The LS7s cant be used unless its an LS7. Sure the engine will run, butlook at what it did to your curve.

Glad you got it fixed.

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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 03:40 PM
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All fixed changed rockers on exhaust back to 1.7 and makes power to 7000rpm I also shimmed the springs .030" too so who knows wich was the problem ?
Glad to hear you got the LS7 rockers off there and it works now.

Still like to see a graph on your beast.
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 04:16 PM
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well my next problem is it dynos fine but when it closed loop it runs like total **** !! I am tired of driving back and forth to New Era every other weekend they have spent a total of 24 hours tuning my car and it does not even feel close to being right I tried to drive it today for the first time and it took me 2 miles to get to 50 I turned around and put the car back in the garage because I was so ashamed. Ive pretty much spent all out on this project and have spent almost as much on tuning as it cost to build the engine and it runs horrible. I went to a local dyno today to make a couple passes and it only made 397hp and then 406hp. Not even close to the 468hp it made there. I go on the dyno and get to about 4500rpm for a pull and its seems fine ? I noticed the AF was 12.6 across the board but it still seemed to blow alot of smoke and smelled real rich ?

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