Well started reassembling the heads. Got a little sidetracked and ordered the wrong (factory) valve stem seals instead of the smaller ID set needed for the BTR dual springs. Also I think sent the spring locator seats back with the core engine so had to get replacements of those.
Cleaned up the stock lifters and installed into new trays.
Bolted heads on with some new lsa head gaskets and reused the stock head bolts as it's been tested that unless you spend $350 on a set of ARP studs the reused stockers outperform almost everything.
Cheap 2yr old digital torque wrench wouldn't turn on so broke out Mr. John Deere 1970's swing beam wrench dad gave me 15 years ago.
Dropped the rockers on to find .075 of slack between the spring and rocker. Seems odd as everything is essentially the same type of part as the old lq4 and that ran stock pushrods.
I need to determine if BTR changed the base circle diameter on the series 1 stg2 blower cam I used to have vs my new stg2 torque blower. If so the ~.050 pushrod length change maskes sense. If not IDK
Cleaned up the stock lifters and installed into new trays.
Bolted heads on with some new lsa head gaskets and reused the stock head bolts as it's been tested that unless you spend $350 on a set of ARP studs the reused stockers outperform almost everything.
Cheap 2yr old digital torque wrench wouldn't turn on so broke out Mr. John Deere 1970's swing beam wrench dad gave me 15 years ago.
Dropped the rockers on to find .075 of slack between the spring and rocker. Seems odd as everything is essentially the same type of part as the old lq4 and that ran stock pushrods.
I need to determine if BTR changed the base circle diameter on the series 1 stg2 blower cam I used to have vs my new stg2 torque blower. If so the ~.050 pushrod length change maskes sense. If not IDK
