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Hap Waldrop

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Well I just finished Ray's ported head, and put it on the flow bench to give it a whirl, it's getting 20% increase in flow across the board, I'm pretty pleased. Now onto mounting on the bottom end, and dealing with getting all the Harland Sharp roller rockers line up. I've already test fitted them on another head, it looks like I'm going to have my work cut out for me, first thought is the two end roacker arms will have to be milled on the side to center the roller tips on the valves tip, and we have the Winner Circle soild spacers, and it looks like the mill will get some use thinning those up to fit. No two A-series head cast flow is exactly the same, so that meaning the rocker arm pedestal bosses are close, but never the same, so anytime you go with roller rockers arms and solid spacer you have a little chore on your hands. I imagine I spent a good 4-5 hours just making all this work. I think the Titan roller tip rocker arms Mini Mania and mini Spares sells is the better deal, but they still require some fitting, but I think maybe less the the Harland Sharps do. Personally I thibnk going to a roller rocker arm near the same ratio as the stock arm is little excessive for the retrun results you get. In other words when it comes down to what to buy to make horsepower put roller rocker near the stock ratio far down your list of wants.

Sorry no pictures, the camera batteries died, boy I hope Santa brings me a new digital camera, so I can throw this piece of garbage away :smile:
 
Well we hit a bump in the road, I just fiquired out we got the wrong roller rocker arms, sure as all get out, they sent Ray the 948 units they were labled as 1275 units but they are not, I just got off the phone with Rob at WC, and he's going to take care of us ans get us the right ones. By the way, there was a thread here,and on the MGex a few weeks ago about a guys hving trouble lining up his HS roller rocker arm, now I know why, he had the 948 units as well, turn ot our buddy the Dr. who sells these on Ebay, needs to educate himself on the right part numbers, now mind you we did not get our form him, we were just the victim of a mislabling.
 
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