Titanium Valves Allowed in S/S?

[Stick Racing]

Originally Posted by junior barns

8000 rpm????????

Go to the track and watch Jimmy Bridges make a run then report back to me.



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Andy Stone 1102 A/S 1112 SS/C

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Stick Racing

Go to the track and watch Jimmy Bridges make a run then report back to me.



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Andy Stone 1102 A/S 1112 SS/C

I haven't asked Jimmy, have you asked him how he feels about titanium valves?

[Ed Wright]

I can afford them and they would extend my valve spring life, but this stuff has to stop some place.

[Stick Racing]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

I haven't asked Jimmy, have you asked him how he feels about titanium valves?

No I haven't. I met Jimmy some years ago at the Dutch through a friend who bought a set of heads from him. I believe he was trying to set the record at that time in the Corvette. I was on the starting line when he made a couple of passes and I thought that was an awful lot of RPMs for a big block.

Don't get me wrong-its obvious the steel valves will work. Even at the high RPMS. It;s my opinion that if titanium valves were legal, maybe the valve train would last longer.

Funny, I never heard anyone complain about titanium axles in a rear....


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Andy Stone 1102 A/S 1112 SS/C

[Pvt Parts]

Originally Posted by Stick Racing

Go to the track and watch Jimmy Bridges make a run then report back to me.



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Andy Stone 1102 A/S 1112 SS/C

Here's one for ya..... When I raced my SS cars out of Jimmy's shop in the late 1980's I was driving the SS/K Chev II and Jimmy was driving my SS/L Chev II. One year at the Gators I told Jimmy to take the high end chip out of the MSD and leave wide open. I told him that I'd been driving the K car like that for a couple of months. We were leaving the starting line wide open at 10,200. Jimmy drove the L car to the semis.

[Red LeBlanc]

I am In Favor of the ***. Valves for SS. We use them in our lite valve combinations . If there going to do it ask for the whole Ball of Wax.. Any stem size .. Hey Guys just my 2 cents .. Red Le Blanc

[Red LeBlanc]

I am In Favor of the Titanium Valves for SS. We use them in our lite valve combinations . If there going to do it ask for the whole Ball of Wax.. Any stem size .. Hey Guys just my 2 cents .. Red Le Blanc

[Stephen & Horace Johnson]

Originally Posted by Red LeBlanc

I am In Favor of the Titanium Valves for SS. We use them in our lite valve combinations . If there going to do it ask for the whole Ball of Wax.. Any stem size .. Hey Guys just my 2 cents .. Red Le Blanc

i agree, lets run any size valve stem.....

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson

i agree, lets run any size valve stem.....

y'all must have big valve stems in those FE motors

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

y'all must have big valve stems in those FE motors

3/8ths like a big block Chebbie and a 383/426/440 wedge MoPar ! The Hemi "Cuda guy wants them because the 5/16ths stems are a little fragile at 10,000 RPM's.