Roller Cams in Stock Eliminator?

[Dwight Southerland]

Well, let's look at it from the $$ side of things since that seems to be of interest.
Switch to roller cam = new billet cam, new roller lifters, new push rods, new valve springs (after all, what's the limit?), camshaft movement limiter of some sort, roller rocker arms, and then add in the machine work to allow the new maxsize valve springs that will be the next on the list to be allowed.


Reduce max seat pressure to something that will live with flat tappet lifters = new cast cam to work with the reduced pressure, new flat tappet lifters, new valve springs.


If you are smart, lobby for spring pressures that will allow common auto parts store parts to live. But I forgot, it takes too much to figure that out.

[Bill Diehl]

You guys are killing me with this spring pressure BS. nobody will change there cam profile, nobody wants to give up power....unless of course, you are bracket racing, Oh I forgot, that's what it is, because everybody bitches when somebody runs it out the back door.

back to the subject...you guys want to see a ton of broken valvetrain parts...limit the spring pressure and you will

next you will want an rpm limit

[kansas stocker]

Funny how we ran for years with stock spring pressures and it was easy to check.
Times will be slower and nobody will be able to tell the difference except in their pocket book.
Pete

[Run to Rund]

OK, different cams have different lifts, so the springs could be something like 170 lb. seat, and 400 lb. at some average lift, like .475. As another example of "non-stock stockers" besides the 396, look at the Z28 running 9000 rpm in stock, killing every other combination for D/S.