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Unread 10-10-2009, 11:32 AM   #64
Formula Outlaw
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I feel your pain. I got totally hosed on some engine work on my 65', and Corvettes West, out of Sarasota, has completely blown me off. Tommy has never even acknowedged any type of a problem. Among all the things they did wrong, when the roller lifters were installed, they never installed any locking bars on them, so of course they spun in place and completely destroyed both the camshaft and the lifters themselves. Rollers don't operate very well when they 90 degrees to the cam lobe.... Pushrods were too long allowing them to go right past the rollers on the rocker arms and bash into the underside of the rocker arm itself. I posted all the pix in my thread, "motor work gone south".

And he was supposed to be a friend....
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65' - originally L76 - now full roller motor - est. 128 rear wheel horsepower- 4.11 Posi - original parts mothballed / 1,657 coats of wax, AND the clock works...
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