Agree 100%
My point wasn't to suggest that an engine lift plate does the same/comparable job as a rocker stud.
Just to point out to Rat Bastid that 4 small fasteners in unison are often more effective than 1 larger fastener working on it's own.
Which is why five 3/8" bolts holding down a rocker shaft sustem would be more rigid against valve spring pressures than eight separate 7/16" rocker studs.
It's much easier to deflect/bend the single stud.
I could go all caveman and ****-up a 7/16" stud with a mash hammer pretty easily, or break it's mounting boss clean off.
but trying to a break/relocate/flex a fully torqued down rocker shaft, that would take some doing.
