Im building a 302-347 stroker. I bought a pair of Edelbrock RPM head # 60269
with Crane Cams Energizer roller rockers to complete the setup.
Sound good right, WRONG. As I was checking the geometry of of the rockers to the valve tip I came across a big problem so listen up ford fans.
The problem was that I could not get the rockers roller tip to center on the valve tip. I have a adjustable pushrod for this. The roller was just hitting on the intake side of the valve tip which is NOT correct. So I checked the part # of my rockers and it was correct # 11746-16 but something was wrong so I called Crane cams. Well I found out from there teck that these rockers are made for a small block chevy "and have the same part number". I built a few of those chevy's to, and to test my memory I think the chevy rockers are about .030 thousands shorter than Fords Small block. The teck said that was correct and will fit the sb ford Edelbrock head. That was just a down right lie from Crane. The rockers DO NOT FIT I told him and they will ruin a new set of 1500 dollar heads. Then he said that I should buy the GOLD Race rockers from Crane as they are correct for Fords, so he just admitted the Energizer rockers dont fit. I then called Edelbrock and they said they know of this problem Crane cams has with this rocker and that Crane is to cheap to make a correct Energizer rocker that fits there heads so they pass off the chevy rocker. A fit all if you will.
If you buy a set of Edelbrock heads, DONT USE THE CRANE ENERGIZER rockers. They will destroy your new heads!!!!!
I made a big fuss about this to Edelbrock and to Summit as I think they should print this warning in there NOTES to warn customers of this no fit part.
Sorry for the long post.
with Crane Cams Energizer roller rockers to complete the setup.
Sound good right, WRONG. As I was checking the geometry of of the rockers to the valve tip I came across a big problem so listen up ford fans.
The problem was that I could not get the rockers roller tip to center on the valve tip. I have a adjustable pushrod for this. The roller was just hitting on the intake side of the valve tip which is NOT correct. So I checked the part # of my rockers and it was correct # 11746-16 but something was wrong so I called Crane cams. Well I found out from there teck that these rockers are made for a small block chevy "and have the same part number". I built a few of those chevy's to, and to test my memory I think the chevy rockers are about .030 thousands shorter than Fords Small block. The teck said that was correct and will fit the sb ford Edelbrock head. That was just a down right lie from Crane. The rockers DO NOT FIT I told him and they will ruin a new set of 1500 dollar heads. Then he said that I should buy the GOLD Race rockers from Crane as they are correct for Fords, so he just admitted the Energizer rockers dont fit. I then called Edelbrock and they said they know of this problem Crane cams has with this rocker and that Crane is to cheap to make a correct Energizer rocker that fits there heads so they pass off the chevy rocker. A fit all if you will.
If you buy a set of Edelbrock heads, DONT USE THE CRANE ENERGIZER rockers. They will destroy your new heads!!!!!
I made a big fuss about this to Edelbrock and to Summit as I think they should print this warning in there NOTES to warn customers of this no fit part.
Sorry for the long post.