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Old 10-22-2011, 12:51 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 1slow370 View Post
i don't think uprev even wants to try to care. I want to know if you jack up the vvel curve can you actually hit the pistons? does sam have an extra block and set of heads lying around somewhere where he could throw some clay on the pistons, slap the head on, time it, use a crescent wrench to turn the vvel fulcrum shaft all the way open and turn the bitch over to see if it actually can touch and determine the clearance? then advance and retard the timing all the way (maybe just do it with the chain?) and turn it over again to see if it hits. why don't we start here. because if nissan built enough clearance into the system well then uprev has just been lying out their @sses the whole time.
Go look at there Facebook page, there are pictures of them working on our block messing with VVEL recently and some in the past. They do care, but the Z is not the only car they work on.
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