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jayb

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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2013, 08:23:16 PM »
That's probably pretty close for the sea level number, and I don't think it will drop off by a factor of 2 at your altitude; maybe only drop off 20% or so.  It really depends on how well your springs and lifters work together.  On my 428CJ dyno mule, when I swapped the hydraulic lifters for solid lifters on the Edelbrock Performer RPM cam, the horsepower continued climbing for a few hundred RPM past 5300.  With the hydraulic lifters it had always hit 5300 and then fallen off.  At a speed of 5800 RPM there was about a 30 HP difference between the solid and hydraulic lifters.  There's a graph of the two horsepower curves in my book.

If your valvetrain setup hangs in there to 6000 RPM with the hydraulic lifters, then you probably won't gain anything with solids; you might even lose a little.  But if its a run of the mill hydraulic cam setup, I doubt it will go past 5500 before it starts to have issues.  If you don't want to spend money on a new cam and lifters, I think you might consider a spring upgrade to keep the lifters under control up to 6000 RPM (assuming you haven't done that already). 

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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2013, 03:57:33 AM »
Thanks Jay for the feed back , i will look into springs and try to set up to keep control of the vales better . Do you have any 428 s to 462 s builds info ?  Thanks Bud
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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2013, 01:53:15 PM »
I have been looking at Rev Limiters. I have a Uni Lite distributor and I  have always  been happy with Mallory parts, but the coil I bought from them was made in China, so I'm a thinking MSD may be the way to go.

Question is which one? 6 AL? 6 AL-2 ?....something else?

 I need a knob style adjuster a it appears the pill style boxes start with a 6000 rpm pill and I'm looking to limit mine to 5500.

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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2013, 03:53:19 PM »
I like my ready to run dizzy from msd with a built in adjustable rev limiter. If you wanted to go that way.

jayb

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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #34 on: October 12, 2013, 03:59:36 PM »
I really like the MSD Digital 6 boxes.  You can dial in whatever rev limits you want.
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Re: Torque and Clearance Specs.
« Reply #35 on: October 13, 2013, 05:31:31 AM »
M S D stuff is great and excellent quality , simple to set up so you wont be disappointed with any off there products .. Bud
69 mach 1 , 428 C J  Blue Oval Performance BBM heads -T@D rocker s- Blue thunder intake - Comp hydr roller - MSD ignition - FPA headers- Holley 850 hp double pumper - TKO 600 - 9 inch 3.89 Detroit Locker . ride tech coil over conversion - power rack @ pinoin steering - 13 inch drilled @ slotted 4 wheel disc brakes ..