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Old 07-26-2009 | 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by 96capricemgr
Those rockers are fine with solid roller cams. I don't see spring pressure as an issue..
Not if you talk to comp. They act like you were being cheap for buying the pro mags and say they are for street/ bracket cars and the cheapest full RR they make. Spring pressure and how high you spin it are the very first things they ask about.
Speedinc did the mods to my guideplates.
Old 07-26-2009 | 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by AChotrod
Not if you talk to comp. They act like you were being cheap for buying the pro mags and say they are for street/ bracket cars and the cheapest full RR they make. Spring pressure and how high you spin it are the very first things they ask about.
Speedinc did the mods to my guideplates.
I went with the Patriot Performance Gold Extreme kit with .660 max lift at 410lbs. These were reccommended by Lloyd Elliot.

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Old 07-27-2009 | 12:04 PM
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Your fine. Rockers are not supossed to break.
Old 07-27-2009 | 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by OddballLt1
Would GM guideplates work? Im putting promags on my car at the moment, and would rather not break a rocker.

After seeing those pics wouldn't you consider exchanging them for something different?

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Old 07-27-2009 | 04:32 PM
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Brings to mind the BeeHive breakage problems that surfaced a while back.

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Old 07-27-2009 | 06:12 PM
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Im tring to get them to switch me to the High tech SS rockers.
Old 07-27-2009 | 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by AChotrod
Not if you talk to comp. They act like you were being cheap for buying the pro mags and say they are for street/ bracket cars and the cheapest full RR they make. Spring pressure and how high you spin it are the very first things they ask about.
Speedinc did the mods to my guideplates.

So your car is a dedicated drag car above the bracket level?? Not a sttee/bracket car

They offer a cheaper aluminum option.

What they did was try and SPIN things off to be your fault for "missusing".

Comp ProMagnums are the right choice for most applications. I have had them for over 3 years on a TRUE street car, something over 20K in that time. Then again I have the 918 beehives that are "supposed" to be bad too and I am not having any trouble with them either

Most folks I know with solid cams use the ProMagnums without incedent.

I am seeing a trend here and it is not a Comp problem.
Old 07-27-2009 | 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by MDR
I went with the Patriot Performance Gold Extreme kit with .660 max lift at 410lbs. These were reccommended by Lloyd Elliot.
I am running those springs and rockers as well.
Old 07-27-2009 | 10:06 PM
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Call comp and ask. No my car is a tame street car and theres no way it should have broke like that. Ive heard of at least 8 broken pro mags in the last week alone. Just zoom on my pic and look how porous the chromoly was.
Old 07-29-2009 | 03:27 PM
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Just got off the phone with comp they looked at the rockers completly agreed and are sending me their High tech SS rockers ASAP. They say this is what I should have been running in the first place and highly recommend them to anyone with a similar set up.
http://www.compperformancegroupstore..._Code=HiTechSS




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