I have a friend that understands all these engine details better than I could hope to, (cam specs and such).  There are several professional mechanics that routinely track him down to ask him questions when they are stumped.  A great friend to have.  He has always worked with large displacement engines, (mostly mopar), and was excited to play around with my little 302.  He had me order the cam after he had picked it out, and then had his machinist bud set up the heads including ordering the springs he wanted, but allowed us to set up the rockers and springs because we were screwing around with those 1.7 rockers.  When the engine was running, it always had a limitation in RPMs of 6300, which is fast enough, but always drove him crazy.  All this time he has ruled out the springs because he knew what he picked out.  When we took this monster all apart, he wasn't gonna let it go back together without checking everything.  Well guess what, just like many of you have been telling me all these years, it was the springs.  The springs he selected never made it onto the heads.  They are less than half as stiff as the application calls for.  You guys are so smart!

Anyway, it's getting corrected as we put it back together, so I'll have to let you know if it makes much of a difference.  I get uncomfortable with it turning that fast anyway.  Sounds like your asking too much of the thing.  I'll be curious to see how it behaves.  And hope we never have occasion to test that scatter shield I bolted in there...

Lance

Last edited by Lance (4/01/2014 3:37 PM)