[Greg Reimer 7376]

Well, here I am at 6:07 AM on a Monday reading this. Here's two more cents. Since most of these stocker cams are ground with more precision and consistancy as to lobe lift and profile, which can be verified by checking all 16 lobes with the cam in the block, then the places correction is necessary would be in the rest of the valvetrain. If all 16 lifters check,then the pushrods, rocker arms, and the valve stem lengths have to be considered. The post regarding minimizing the sweep of the tip of the rocker arm across the tip of the stem revealed the secret to minimizing valve train friction, that sounds like the optimum goal. Variations in rocker arm ratio and valve seat depth and variations in stem length are the only variables left to play with. The actual ratio of rocker arms vs. effective ratio is one more thing to concern yourself with. Seems like these two threads have revealed more areas of thought to be considered than anything else I've seen in a long time.Yes, push rod length is more critical than most persons have probably thought.