View Single Post
Old 09-01-2011, 09:59 AM   #2
Alan Roehrich
Veteran Member
 
Alan Roehrich's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Murfreesboro TN
Posts: 5,123
Likes: 1,580
Liked 1,868 Times in 422 Posts
Default Re: Longer push rods ?

You may or may not see a gain. It depends on what it does to the over all lift curve.

A rocker arm, especially a stud mounted rocker arm, is a variable ratio lever. It will never be the same ratio throughout the lift curve. Now, by getting the lift you're supposed to get, you are correcting the ratio and the geometry at maximum lift, and losing the least amount of motion there. You may have decreased the ratio elsewhere in the lift curve, for example, down around 0.100" to 0.200" lift.

The only way to know for sure exactly what you've done is to plot the curve on a graph for each pushrod length. Then try both, at the track, on the dyno, or both.
__________________
Alan Roehrich
212A G/S
Alan Roehrich is offline   Reply With Quote