: Doug, Which BB application would have a pretty
: healthy spring? I have an installed height
: of 1.84 on the exhaust valves with the cromo
: retainers I used. the 340 springs are a bit
: weak, even with .060 worth of shim. I did
: not feel comfortable with more shim than
: that cause it looked like the spring may
: have been able to walk out of the seat. they
: will begin to float at 5200 with muffler,
: and ok to 5,900 without muffler.(odd!?!) cam
: is still pulling hard, need more spring!
: intakes are stock size with a lot of
: back-cut (no lip!) and good 3 angle grind.
: exh valves are 1.50 sbc with new guides,
: hard seats, and 45* grind. I opted not to
: cut the spring seats after seeing some cut a
: bit too far, and falling out upon spring
: instalation! I like my motors to live, if
: even for a short while. this one has about
: 14,000 miles on it now and 200 passes!
: another is in the works chad

: I have ben using the "stock
: replacement" (single coil with
: damper)HP 383-440 springs. You can get some
: really stiff double and triple coil units.
:
: Note that the Hemi springs are also the taller
: units (Note that 426 Hemi's "eat"
: valvesprings like crazy so the swap meets
: are full of good set for us SL6ers, (we only
: need 12 so a set with 1 or 2
: "smashed" ones works fine.)
:
: Drop-in on the head machinest and see if he has
: some used ones they are throwing away!
: DD