dove/comp cams roller rockers

[GJCAT427]

I was thinking the other night about the Dove /Comp roller rockers and wondered now that Dove is shutting down who will be making the roller rockers for them? Comp cams still shows them listed for the Fe but for how long?

[cammerfe]

Since all the Dove stuff is being sold off, I'd think it'd be possible for some enterprising soul to go into the business. The rockers are extrusions, and weren't made at the Dove facility. The rocker arm set-up was all housed in one room, and the equipment to turn the extrusions into rocker arms is very likely for sale. You'd need to make such things as the adjusting screws, etc, which were done on one or more of the screw-machines that formed the bulk of Dove's core business.

KS

[Katz427]

What ever happened to the molds for all that Jim was supposed to have got from Ford Cleveland engine? I saw Ron from Ford Parts out in Carmentia California quite some years back. He was selling off some stuff for Allen Root. He told me the story of how Root had managed to get a group of molds that were from the 427 era, and that the molds were originally supposed to go too Jim. It was quite a story about Root , and Ford legal department trying to get legal owner ship of the molds for the 427 parts. Supposedly there was production tooling for the SOHC, as well as tooling from CanAm series.

[fastback 427]

I talked to Earl at dove a few weeks ago. Kinda sounded like Jim's son was going to possibly downsize and do rockers, intakes, and maybe a few heads.