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    Quote Originally Posted by 35chevy View Post
    Can you help me understand the difference between the recommended 282 solid and the 282 roller? Duration is pretty close, the solid is 236/236 and the roller is 230/236. the intake valve closing point on the solid is 44 degrees and the roller is 41 degrees. wouldn't that make the roller have a higher dynamic compression since the intake valve closes earlier? What an I missing here?
    Yeah, I must have used closing numbers from a different grind. Sorry. I went back to the post and changed it so that subsequent readers will be able to make sense of it, then added a dyno of the 12-432-8.
    Last edited by techinspector1; 04-19-2009 at 03:55 AM.

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