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That's what I thought about the lifters.
You must have entered something wrong.
I talked to the shop.
It's been a year ish so they don't remember numbers. Said it was built for around 9.5 and medium octane fuel.
Is it worth new lifters and a cam?
Or should I just grab the head and intake and exhaust and build my block?
You must have entered something wrong.
I talked to the shop.
It's been a year ish so they don't remember numbers. Said it was built for around 9.5 and medium octane fuel.
Is it worth new lifters and a cam?
Or should I just grab the head and intake and exhaust and build my block?
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The lifters were to get more top end, it will be stock down low and then the full 1.75 rocker up top
Still had the matching lifters for the cam
And dual springs from Alic inline with 135 closed and for .550 lift
Still had the matching lifters for the cam
And dual springs from Alic inline with 135 closed and for .550 lift
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Would ethanol free 93 octane be a better then pump gas? I have a station right by the house and a 38 gal tank plus a 19 should get me wherever and back.
Also I'd like to know about how I could go about dropping the cr. Bigger gasket, cleaning the cc maybe digging a little deeper? and maybe cutting the edges off the Pistons?
Also I'd like to know about how I could go about dropping the cr. Bigger gasket, cleaning the cc maybe digging a little deeper? and maybe cutting the edges off the Pistons?
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Ethanol has higher octane than gasoline.
I'd find a core and build an engine myself. What you're looking at isn't necessarily bad, but there are too many question marks.
On the Rhoads lifters, you usually see them on race cars where there's a vacuum rule - i.e. must have X" of vacuum at idle - to bleed duration from a long duration (230°+ @.050") cam at low rpm.
I'd find a core and build an engine myself. What you're looking at isn't necessarily bad, but there are too many question marks.
On the Rhoads lifters, you usually see them on race cars where there's a vacuum rule - i.e. must have X" of vacuum at idle - to bleed duration from a long duration (230°+ @.050") cam at low rpm.
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I can't build one my self. This is my dd and I'm deployed. F I build one and buy all the Intake and parts, it'll cost me more then that. I can swap the carb and lifters with spares I have. Also with a good few minutes at the hand of my machine shop and a bigger gasket I'll run fine on a lower then race octane.
Plus the extra parts I get soften it up. I can throw the 249 head on my current engine after a bore and slowly build that one to an extreme.
Plus the extra parts I get soften it up. I can throw the 249 head on my current engine after a bore and slowly build that one to an extreme.
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