[TR] Purely Subjective Question re. TR3A Valve Settings

terryrs at comcast.net terryrs at comcast.net
Wed May 11 17:08:46 MDT 2011


Just curious if anyone cares to venture: what would be the loss of power due to poor breathing, if one (omigoodness, not me, no--not me!) were to, say, adjust the valves properly...well, except when the engine had not yet cooled more than halfway.  Would one, and of course am speaking only hypothetically here, about someone else...uhm, ehr, would the clearance .010 gap actually be smaller by say a hundredth, and what effect does that actually have on performance.  

Should he-who-can't-be-named have to worry about burning valves here????  Or would it be just the mild loss of acceleration and top end speed????

Terry Smith,'59 TR3A
New Hampshire



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