To achieve the proper valve spring height while using the minimum amount of valve spring shims can be challenging when working with applications that use other than stock components. There has never ...

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In stock and Ready to Ship. BLOX Racing valve springs are wound using super clean, chrome silicone alloy. These valve springs are designed and engineered for both high performance street driving and ...

The Pro-Stock brand of Elgin Industries has introduced high-strength, chrome-moly-steel valve spring retainers engineered to accommodate the higher spring pressures found in performance-enhanced ...

This is a hardening treatment that even though it is not widely used as the chrome coating, it has several benefits and is becoming very popular, mainly for European and Japanese applications. The ...

Fittings such as these, for connecting a compressed air line to the spark plug hole for valve support, are available at most auto parts stores. Occasionally it is necessary or desirable to inspect or ...

If the cylinder heads are on the engine, you will need to add air pressure to the cylinder to hold the valves in place. Our example is the Craftsman 47089 compression test kit using the 14mm long ...

Worldwide, Honda enthusiasts invest hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on their powerplants to extract the utmost in power and reliability. Whether they opt to keep their Honda naturally aspirated, ...

Clearance is all in the details. Our friends at Lunati spell it out. There’s more to valve springs than meets the eye at surface level. For a simple coil of wire, valve springs do an incredible job of ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...