Re: MEBE007's 80 Regal Build Thread w/ Carnage
well long time no see folks. build has been dead in the water as it has been over 100degrees in my shop and after working in it all day i didnt feel like staying after to work on the car.
to answer the some peoples questions. the only part of the motor i did not do is the pushrods/valve train adjustment. My budd, well supposed buddy who is/was my machinist did that part when i was out of town. i screwed up and trusted him and now see where i am. learned my lesson. he said he was going to take care of me and replace my rocker studs and also the pushrods and new intake gaskets. well hes been dicking me around this whole time and now not answering my calls. guess the friendship is over huh. So anyways now i need to save up the money for new 7/16' studs, new 1206 gaskets, new header gaskets(pulled headers to make sure all exhaust valves were full seated and none stuck open in case of ptv clearance) and most likely new 1.5 ratio rockers. for some some reason i feel leary about the 1.6 ratio and figured i might just play the safe side and stay 1.5 and just keep the 1.6 on the shelf.
so here are some things i have found since this nice little break in the weather( hope it lasts) pulled the headers all intake valves appear to be fully seated, pulled the intake to get broken pushrods out, all intake valves appear to be fully seated. tapped a pushrod that wasnt broken as straight as possible with a hammer and took a measurement. guess what it came out to being.....................7.8", stock length. no wonder im having issues. according to howards cams website they suggest 2 of their pushrods for hydraulic roller cams using their kits, their performance series .060 wall thickness at 7.144" and their one piece swagged end .080" wall thickness at 7.150" now thats a big difference in length. now my heads (profilers) suggest +.100" longer pushrods which would still only put me at the 7.244" to 7.250". That means he put pushrods in my motor that were somewhere give or take around .5" too long. Simply crazy.
so now its time to get some money together and get this beast going.
well long time no see folks. build has been dead in the water as it has been over 100degrees in my shop and after working in it all day i didnt feel like staying after to work on the car.
to answer the some peoples questions. the only part of the motor i did not do is the pushrods/valve train adjustment. My budd, well supposed buddy who is/was my machinist did that part when i was out of town. i screwed up and trusted him and now see where i am. learned my lesson. he said he was going to take care of me and replace my rocker studs and also the pushrods and new intake gaskets. well hes been dicking me around this whole time and now not answering my calls. guess the friendship is over huh. So anyways now i need to save up the money for new 7/16' studs, new 1206 gaskets, new header gaskets(pulled headers to make sure all exhaust valves were full seated and none stuck open in case of ptv clearance) and most likely new 1.5 ratio rockers. for some some reason i feel leary about the 1.6 ratio and figured i might just play the safe side and stay 1.5 and just keep the 1.6 on the shelf.
so here are some things i have found since this nice little break in the weather( hope it lasts) pulled the headers all intake valves appear to be fully seated, pulled the intake to get broken pushrods out, all intake valves appear to be fully seated. tapped a pushrod that wasnt broken as straight as possible with a hammer and took a measurement. guess what it came out to being.....................7.8", stock length. no wonder im having issues. according to howards cams website they suggest 2 of their pushrods for hydraulic roller cams using their kits, their performance series .060 wall thickness at 7.144" and their one piece swagged end .080" wall thickness at 7.150" now thats a big difference in length. now my heads (profilers) suggest +.100" longer pushrods which would still only put me at the 7.244" to 7.250". That means he put pushrods in my motor that were somewhere give or take around .5" too long. Simply crazy.
so now its time to get some money together and get this beast going.
