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RE: Roller Rockers

To: "'James Franks'" <jimmble@adelphia.net>,
Subject: RE: Roller Rockers
From: Hugh Fader <hfader@usa.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:24:15 -0500
Jim,

I respectfully disagree. The heat from friction is power, lost power. If you
decrease lost power, you increase net power delivered to the crankshaft. Now
you might argue about whether this change would be noticable, but total
valvetrain losses are significant.

- Hugh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of James Franks
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:53 PM
> To: michael lunsford
> Cc: 6pack
> Subject: Re: Roller Rockers
>
>
> Roller rockers don't increase power.
> They only decrease friction. Any HP increase will be almost
> incidental.
>
>
> Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "michael lunsford" <mblunsfordsr@yahoo.com>
> To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:10 PM
> Subject: Roller Rockers
>
>
> > Listers,
> >
> > i just installed a new set of roller rockers on my TR6.  It
> runs fine but
> I haven't noticed any dramatic increase in power.  I've set
> the intakes at
> .012 and the exhaust at .014 per our local LBC expert.  I
> plan to purchase
> an S-2 cam later but due to a recent rebuild with a new stock
> cam I don't
> want to mess with something that is working well at the
> moment.  The reason
> for this post is that i have just checked the compression and
> have found
> that the compression is down across the board about 30 PSI
> (170 from 200
> PSI).  Is this normal?  Have I done something wrong?  I have
> reset the lash
> on the rockers twice and still have the same results.
> >
> > Mike Lunsford, 1970 TR 6 with a 73 late type head.
> >
> >
> >
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