You lucky son of a gun! That's the way the factory would build
'stock' racing engines with just those few extra RPM's in 'em..
Lester
On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:52 PM, David Booker wrote:
> Ed & everybody else who straightened me out on this:
>
> OK - So maybe the
> memory's not what it used to be and it was 2500, not 1500 RPM after
> all. All
> I know is that I did EXACTLY what the guys at Snyder Racing in
> California told
> me to do when they built the cam and it was a pretty rowdy little
> engine as a
> result.
>
> I also used Terry progressive rate valve springs, some kind of trick
> (recommended by a friend) multi-angle valve grind, did some porting
> with my
> dremel, added a header, twin SU rather than the stock single carb,
> and various
> other special bits. Best of all, when it came time to pick out the
> pistons,
> push rods, valves and other reciprocating mass bits, I sat in the
> Beck/Arnley
> warehouse floor with parts spread out all around me. With the help
> of a handy
> gram scale I had laying around (for some reason or other), I
> eventually came
> up with basically a poor-man's balanced engine. It was a fun little
> car.
> David Booker
> Long Island
>
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