Tech Talk With Steve Rolenc
Operating
Setting Valve Lash
This is the ONLY acceptable technique for adjusting valves. Work cylinder by cylinder. Turn engine until exhaust valve just breaks open, then adjust intake valve. Open intake valve all the way to max. lift and on until almost closed, then adjust the exhaust valve.
Starting
Always start new engines with air cleaner assemblies installed. Anytime the engine is off and a change in the timing, fuel pressure, jets, pills, bypasses, or reinstalled spark plug wires etc… Always install air cleaner as a flame arrestor to avoid a fire from backfiring, and fuel spitting.
Cooling
520-977-7712CoolingWhen using a thermostat, you must make sure the air is bled out of cooling system. This avoids air-locking engine and wounding heads, valves, guides and rings, among other things. When running a non-modified thermostat, disconnect the highest hose...
Installation
The entry on the headers needs to be ground slightly bigger than the exhaust port exits in the cylinder heads. The cylinder heads have had so much critical attention that if this important transition area is crappy, we might as well have put crappy heads on your engine. If your headers were run on our dyno, we’ve already ported them for you.
