Hey Cylinder heads guys- advice needed
Here’s another person who ended up with the uneven tip heights on some w2’s:
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I’ve never heard of guys getting away with running a standard rocker on a W2 Head. I wouldn’t even think about trying that.
I have pretty limited hands on w2 experience.
I’ve done maybe 6 sets of them through the years, and only installed one set onto a motor myself.
As mentioned previously, those were short valve econo heads that I put a single shaft T&D system on.
I don’t know if I ever really gave any thought to whether the rockers were the same length as stock heads(before looking through this thread), since I would have figured one would be buying a “set” of rockers for the heads anyway, and that they’d (theoretically) be the correct length.
Through the years I’ve serviced many many heads that had been running fine with the tip heights varying by as much as the OP’s heads.
The one head where they vary .015-.030........it’s not great, but also not worth spending a pile of $$$ on correcting it either imo.
I’d work on getting the other head with the bigger tip height discrepancy so it’s in that same .015-.030 range and call it good.
Then I’d find some exhaust rockers that are longer than the 273 rockers(as in, correct length w2 ex rockers).
