RE: Racer Brown

[William Cole <wedge64@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may help or not but here goes. I was running a Mopar solid lifter
cam in my 440 block engine. I switched to the Racer Brown hydraulic cam
and tried using the same pushrods that was in the motor. They were too
long and the valve hit the piston. I had to buy a set of stock length
pushrods and everything worked fine after that. 
It seems the lifter is a different height than a hydraulic lifter so the
solid lifter pushrods wouldn't work.
And you also have to have the proper valve springs designed for the cam
you are using.
 
Bill C.
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:49:52 -0400, "Steven Charette"
<stevec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> Bill,
> 	A couple if questions:  Did you check piston to valve clearance?  Do
> you have oversize valves in the heads?  What ratio rockers are you using?
> Are the springs binding (opening to the point that the coils are all
> touching and no more movement is available?
> 
> SC 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Harrison [mailto:bbjt3@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:25 PM
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Racer Brown
> 
> A little back ground on this subject:::
> I bought a Cam Dynamics Roller Cam from an ebayer but when I installed it
> along with the roller lifters and rockers, as I was rotating the crank to
> cold set the lifter lash, it started bending push rods.
> Nothing is binding  in the valve train.
> I have Crower push rods and have bent 2, along with 6 small block push
> rods.
> The lobes on the cam are just too high and are over compressing the
> springs
> and causing the push rods to bend.
> The guy swears he had it in a 440 for less than a summer with no
> problems.
> If any body has a theory, please let me know.
> Later
> Bill
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Gary H. <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gary H. <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Racer Brown
> > To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:57 PM
> > 
> > It think it is listed on the 62-65 site's vendor page in the "Engine" 
> > section.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gary H.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> >  
> > >
> > >
> > >Does someone have the phone number for Racer Brown
> > Co.?
> > >I remember someone posting it a while back but I did
> > not save it.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Bill Harrison
> > >65 Coronet 2 dr post
> > 
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