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Re: stiffer valve springs

On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Brooks Ellis wrote:

>         
>         How would stiffer valve springs do for your redline? Would they bump
> it up a few hundred RPM? Perhaps lengthen the engine life for those of us
> who like to rack and roll near redline everywhere we go? 
>         Anything wrong with this idea? I assume that it would come at a
> minute fuel consumption increase, but not a noticible one.
> 

It isnt a matter of stiffer springs, its a matter of finding a pair of 
springs (two per valve) that have a high harmonic of each other. It may 
in fact be the stiffness that gives this, but its a matter of matching as 
well.

Bob


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