I'm not speaking in any official capacity, but in SVRA small bore production, we've been debating this for years...My opinion (from someone who routinely builds and brings half a dozen to a dozen ca
More to the point is that non-roller rockers are available from many suppliers to a very good specification (Keith Dodd at Mini Spares Centre makes the set of 1.5:1 rockers that I used for four seaso
<< Vintage for me means building these cars to a specification that WAS, not IS. The other point is that (all you VMC club rules people listening?) if you have a rule in print, enforce it! Do NOT con
Jack, sounds as easy as pie. As most things do from a distance. Every now and then pull in a car or two as they come in from a race and lift the rocker cover. If anyone has been bad a maximum fine a
<< Although I sympathize with your problem (believe me), I can't agree that just because something is difficult to enforce, it should be OK. I would think that random checking of valve gear would be
More as a matter of curiosity than anything else (and from my perspective as an ex-SCCA production car racer) , aren't the notions of vintage racing, and cheating, antithetical? There is such a wide
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HEAR! HEAR! Very well said Peter. I emphatically agree! The rocker gear on a pushrod engine is one of the limiting factors of the design. If an engine is breaking rocker arms, it is most likely becau