RE: on the topic of rocker arms...

From: John_Neff@Dell.com
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 10:38:52 EDT


I have a little over 1000 miles on my Mopar 1.7 roller rockers in my 318.
The pistons are the stock items as is the cam.

John
http://jndneff.home.texas.net/dakota/dakota.html

> My question is on 1.7:1 rocker arm piston clearance. The catalogue
> warns
> that the 1.7's may interfere with the pistons and to check clearance. Is
> any one successfully running 1.7's on stock pistons? I can imagine high
> compression pistons having clearance issues, but I will be running the
> ProCharger kit so I want to keep the stock low-compression pistons. I
will
> also be running the "slightly illegal" cam. It's the one listed just
under
> the R/T cam (can't recall the part number). That cam has a .486 lift. AND
I
> will be using the R/T big valve (2.02 intake) heads. I figure low overlap
+
> big lift + big valves + boost=good clean fun.



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