I think I'm going to get back in the game...

[ERA Chas]

-and all that will work perfectly. The keys are the single spring, immediate start and 60PSI. Broke mine in with a coat of black moly on lobes and lifters, inner spring, Kendall 50wt, and 2000RPM for 20 or so minutes. Whatever ZDDP was in Kendall then was it-no science lab chemical debates then. No flat lobes or nightmares in 2 decades either.
Guys invent a lot of myths and BS because of failures they heard/read about. All those failures were because the installer varied from or omitted the simple steps Brent will do-or the cam metallurgy was bad.


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[patrickt]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

-and all that will work perfectly. The keys are the single spring, immediate start and 60PSI. Broke mine in with a coat of black moly on lobes and lifters, inner spring, Kendall 50wt, and 2000RPM for 20 or so minutes. Whatever ZDDP was in Kendall then was it-no science lab chemical debates then. No flat lobes or nightmares in 2 decades either.
Guys invent a lot of myths and BS because of failures they heard/read about. All those failures were because the installer varied from or omitted the simple steps Brent will do-or the cam metallurgy was bad.

I agree with Chas. Brent will do just fine; I have faith in him.

[blykins]

I appreciate that.

I did make some more decisions on the top end. Joe Craine (head porter in TX) will be doing some port work to the Edelbrock heads when I order them. I've used him before on some SBF heads and I have a lot of respect for the man's talent. He's getting 330cfm @.700" by hand porting. Of course I won't see anywhere near that amount of peak lift, so my results will be a little less. However, to meet my goal, I'm thinking I'll need at least 300-310cfm. Shouldn't be a problem.

Since I'm not running really high spring pressures, I may do a little valve guide work and grab a set of Ferrea valves with some smaller stems.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by blykins

I did make some more decisions on the top end. Joe Craine (head porter in TX) will be doing some port work to the Edelbrock heads when I order them.

Smart. Rick Lake says Joe C. is God's Gift to Head Porting.