All of my racing cams have more than .370 lift with fairly tight valve
lash and no one has experienced a problem with the rings. My heads have
been milled about 0.170. I use a round burr with about 1/4 inch diameter
to make a curved rather than flat relief, so that it doesn't have to go
as deep.
-Larry
On 11/10/2010 2:08 PM, Rich Rock wrote:
> Thanks for all the excellent replies. Seems like the best way to know for
> sure is to actually measure the rocker arms in question.
>
> The reason I'm trying to be so exact is that I am looking at the
>possibility
> of installing roller rockers in place of the stock ones on some motors which
> have oversize intake valves, fairly thin heads, steel shim gasket, not much
> deck height and .370" lift at cam. All the things which combine to make for
> valve clearance concerns, especially when it comes to the depth of the relief
> in the liners on the intake valve side.
>
> With this cam, the difference in lift at the valve between a 1.42 ratio and a
> 1.5 ratio rocker arm is .040". That would put the top ring real close to the
> existing relief. I wonder how close you can get? Is there a suggested
> minimum for this spec?
>
> Rich Rock
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