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Rickybop Member from the thumb of Michigan "I have to pee like a racehorse." - Somebody "I have to poop like a race cow." - Me Rickybop, SHARE POST #2521
Just pull number on plug on the front left bank, pull coil wire to keep it from starting, stick your thumb over the hole, bump it slowly with your remote start button or a buddy on the key switch, when it blows against your thumb pull the cap and make sure the rotor is pointing at the number one hole, if it is not, like Jean Luc Piccard would ...
Roll oversteer feels twitchy. There are lots of "rules of thumb" about what should be parallel or pointing up or down. Mostly it's all bunk. Just do the calculations and design a geometry for the handling characteristics you want. Some adjustability is always a good thing as well.
a good rule of thumb is, whatever you can add going from 1.5 to 1.65 rockers, i.e. around 10% more lift, you can generally grind into the cam itself for hydro flat tappet. then if you run the same 1.65 rockers, you can add that much more again with rocker ratio. so...in case of a Pontiac V8, a .470" lift cam can become a .510" lift cam, then ...
Rickybop ALLIANCE MEMBER from the thumb of Michigan Wow. Cool. I've got a thing for the old Mopar coupes. Love the '33 '34s. I think that's a Dana 60 rear end. 5 lug even. In fact, probably the same rear axle I just bought for my '31 from a '60s Ford truck.