Date:         Sat, 10 May 2003 06:58:23 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Solid lifter conversion.
Comments: To: kdlewis@JUNO.COM
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Why would anyone want to do it unless they were going to build a super
high performance engine. The reason for industry going to hydraulics inf
the first place was to eliminate some problems inherent with solid
lifters in production engines, i.e, periodic manual adjustments for wear
beng one. hydraulics eliminate this as well as maintain proper clearence
at all times, which reduces negative effects on engine operation.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Ken Lewis wrote:

>Replace hydraulic lifters with solid? This sounds crazy enough to work,
>or does it just crazy?
>
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