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Yes and No. If you go too radical with lift, you would have to cut valve reliefs in the pistons. I think if you stayed under .600 lift and under .050 or so milling the heads you would probably be OK, but I really am not sure. On my 5.3 I had heads milled .020 and was running .565 lift with the factory pushrods. (I lost all the valvetrain noise with the shaved heads) I didn't have any clearance problems.
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Or you could justs get forged pistons like me and not have to worry about p to v clearances.
Duration has alot to do with the clearance issues too. If you have a lower duration cam with a high lift you could probably get away with it now take that same lift cam and add 5*s of duration to it and bam your engine is gone. Proper research is the key.
Duration has alot to do with the clearance issues too. If you have a lower duration cam with a high lift you could probably get away with it now take that same lift cam and add 5*s of duration to it and bam your engine is gone. Proper research is the key.
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Originally Posted by 1slow01Z71
Or you could justs get forged pistons like me and not have to worry about p to v clearances.
Proper research is the key.
Proper research is the key.
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Originally Posted by crazyidiot4.8
then do some more research and tell me why the type of piston has anythign to do with p to v clearance....
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Oh yea I forgot to add that. Best way to tell is put it together with an old (compressed) head gasket, and check clerance. A new cam is way cheaper than a new rotating assembly. Or just get in touch with cam motion and tell em what you're doin.
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Originally Posted by crazyidiot4.8
then do some more research and tell me why the type of piston has anythign to do with p to v clearance....
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Originally Posted by 1slow01Z71
Cause in case you didnt know you can get pistons with valve notches cut in them. Why dont you go do some research and you would know.