On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Bullwinkle wrote to mgtabc and mgt:
> Has anyone ever tried making up different valve lifters? I was thinking
> of a hollow lifter in which the push rod went clear to the bottom of the
> lifter. Thus the lifter could have thinner walls and be lighter.
Many years ago that kind of setup was done using bucket tappets from a
Studebaker or Packard or some other long-gone American car (I no longer
remember which one). The idea is sound: Lighten up the valve ttrain as
much as possible and you reduce the load on the cam lobes. I think Brown
& Gammons now supply that type of tappets, with longer pushrods to suit.
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 XPAG7430 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO CT3479E
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