Well.
The rocker dilemma will be solved by using the Crower rockers.
It just won't be solved using "these" Crower rockers.
Absolutely zero contact using the big assed 3/8" pushroods that I ordered based on information gained from the last set of tests.
Now that I have 9.750" long pushrods, and 1.75 ratio Crower rockers, It's all wrong.
The roller tip of the rocker looks like it travels too far from one end of the valve tip to the other. I removed the pushrod, and re-installed the adjustable unit, and no matter what I did, I could not make the rocker contain its' travel to a decent margin on top of the valve.
I think that the 1.75 ratio is just too much for this setup. I'm thinkin that it should be more like 1.7 instead.
I'm gonna call Crower tech, and talk w/ them tomorrow, but to me it looks like I'll be boxing up all of this junk, and sending it back to summit (again) for an exchange.
I'm really getting tired of d icking w/ all of this nit-picky crap. I just want the engine to be done.
On another tangent,
I don't know how many of you have looked into buying new carpet for your car lately, but that
has gotten expensive.
I started watching Acc's pricing at the end of the year last year, and fully intended to buy the stuff at that time, especially since they were claiming that there was a price increase due at the first of the year.
At that time, w/ the end of year discounts they were offering, I was looking at having to spend 169.00 on a set of their standard backed cutpile in my color. ( Saddle)
I messed around, and let that slip by.
The next time I ck'd everybody was selling the carpet (including Summit) for 229.00. No matter where I looked, it was pretty much the same.
So when I resigned myself to just bite the bullet, and buy the stinkin stuff at 229.00 I called the standard suppliers looking to get the carpet in the right color, for my bodystyle.
Summit didn't have it, nor did LRS, or American Muscle. (because it had to be for the longer, Fairmont, instead of a Mustang.) Couple that to the fact that I wanted the stuff in a brown tone, and I was turning up empty everywhere.
I went to Acc online, and had the carpet picked out, and was ready to click the "Buy it Now" button, but for whatever reason, chose to close the page, and blew it off.
I got back online a couple of days later, and googled automotive carpet, and a website popped up.
Stockinteriors.com .
They had the carpet in my color, sized to fit my car, and were offering it for the bargain basement price of $129.00 plus 15.00 shipping.
I bought it.
Now I was wondering what I'd end up with when this junk arrived, fully 100.00 cheaper then ACC's price. I expected some thinned down Chinee version would show up, and hoped that it wouldn't be too bad.
This is what shows up
Stock interiors orders their inventory from ACC. This box arrived directly from ACC in Anniston, Alabama. I open it, and it is the exact same stuff that I could've gotten from them for 100.00 more.
Same formed carpet, same Jute backing, same made in America quality.
So,..be advised.
Stockinteriors.com sells ACC's carpet for less than ACC sells it for.
Alot less.