Well I'm not bashin Doug Dutra. Just saying what I found him to recommend. I thought it was strange, but then, lots probably thought things Garlits did was strange. Sometimes out of the box thinking works. You have to get out of the box to find out. Sometimes it blows apart. At least if you try, you'll have found out.
The 318 valves are comin. Right, wrong or otherwise. To me, they make the best choice because they're cheap and they're a familiar installed height (small block) so springs are very readily available and also........cheap.
Plus, now, I have run into yet another road block with the roller cam and have decided I am tired of road blocks. I was going to modify the Buick rockers. Too much drilling. Then I was going to modify the stock rockers. Even with a tungsten carbide bit, all I do is scratch the surface. I guess "I could" use the hydraulic rocker gear and use an oil through adjustable pushrod, but I am just tired of road blocks at this point.
Besides, not that I've had to quit work, the finances are a little tighter. I did get the gear drive to work and fit VERY well and even figured out how to convert it to a fixed, single idler system, so I MIGHT run that. I do still have the really nice rollmaster timing set on the shelf too.
So right, wrong or somewhere in between, it's going together "like it's going together".
