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[topgun]

I know I have been here before but here goes. I have put my car in the garage for the last time till next spring. During the winter I am going to install roller rockers and just need to know what brand and type of guideplates,studs,pushrods and roller rockers you guy's recomend. And yes I do realize that I will need to measure for the correct pushrod length. And what width rod would be best. I will also like to know where the best place for me to go and read up on the proper proceedure for measuring the pushrond length. Oh yeah, It's a 1968 ford 460 block and heads running a edelbrock performer cam and lifters and manifold with a 750 holley. Not by no means a race car I just want a good reliable runner. Thanks........................Rich

[Dave Severson]

We run Comp Cams valve train pieces on both BBF cars now... Had Lunati, Crane, and even some Isky for awhile. The Comp Cams lifters are IMO the best if you don't mind paying the bucks for the top of the line stuff..... That would be the Hi-Tech stainless ones, they've always worked great for me!!!!!

[techinspector1]

Ideally, you want the centerline of the valve to be perpendicular to a line drawn through the rocker stud pivot/roller tip axes at one half valve lift. The rocker tip would start out slightly to the inboard side of the valve stem tip at zero lift and the centerline of the valve at an angle of maybe 100* to the centerline of the rocker. As the valve advances to mid-lift, the rocker tip would roll outboard on the valve tip as the relationship of the valve centerline to the rocker axes moves to 90 degrees and the rocker becomes effectively longer from the pivot point on the rocker stud to the roller tip axis. As the valve advances to full lift, the centerline of the valve in relation to the rocker pivot axes would diminish to maybe 80 degrees and the rocker would become effectively shorter, rolling the rocker tip back to the inboard side of the valve tip.

As the valve begins to close and comes back to half lift, the relationship would again be 90 degrees, with the roller tip again moving to the outboard side of the valve tip. As the valve comes onto its seat, the relationship would again come to about 100 degrees and the roller tip would move to the inboard side of the valve tip once more, because now, the rocker would be effectively shorter again.

You would want the same scenario going on with the pushrod side of the rocker arm, with the 90 degree relationship between the pushrod centerline and the line established between the rocker stud pivot point and the pushrod cup pivot point at 1/2 valve lift.

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