Valve lash setting on a unknown cam
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Valve lash setting on a unknown cam
Got a car that has a solid lift custom grind Nitrous cam,tried to find out what the valve lash was supposed to be but i have not had any luck with previous owner,so any suggestions on how i should set them?No cam card of course,on nitrous cams are the valve lash tighter?I know i can pull the cam,but dont really want to do that untill the winter.I did check them just to see kinda where they are now and they range from .002-.008-.010 and in between.
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.002?
Wow that's WAYYYY to tight!
Loosen that puppy up!
I'd put them all on a even .022 cold just to be on the safe side but thats JMO and I'm sure someone will disagree> if you insist on having split lashes put the intake on .022 and the exhuast on .028.
Goodluck, Charles
Wow that's WAYYYY to tight!
Loosen that puppy up!
I'd put them all on a even .022 cold just to be on the safe side but thats JMO and I'm sure someone will disagree> if you insist on having split lashes put the intake on .022 and the exhuast on .028.
Goodluck, Charles
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Yep- I am w/ Cepx... I have talked about this some on this forum on a different thread... it was 3 or 4 pages long... but no one had anything like .19/.30... that's tighter than a Catholic girl on prom night!! Mine is .26/.26 on a BBC w/o nitrous... but I am certainly no expert on this.
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I got a bullit that's .590/.595 lift and it calls for .026,.028 hot, i was told by bullit i could go as low as .018,.020 but not any lower. I spent close to $800.00 and went to a .626 roller and picked up a whole .005 in the 1/8, it wasn't my idea of fun.
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