Spent all day in my buddies shop swapping out my stock roller rockers. Took me a good 4.5 hours. Swapping the rockers was the easy part, getting those @)#* valve covers off was a job. Anyone thinking about doing a swap, make sure you got the time, tools, and patience. I'm running crane 1.6 rockers on stock springs. Everythings running great w/ no problems yet whatsoever. Stock covers went back on w/ no problem. I haven't punches it really hard yet though. Besides getting new springs any thing I can do to help prevent valve float or coil bind?

 

Not much except putting your stock rockers back on.

 

What was soo difficult about getting your valve covers off? its jes 4 bolts...

 

Thats what i am saying, lol. I bet he tried to do the passenger side without removing the alternator.

 

i'm sorry i aint the mechanic you guys are

 

Sorry wasnt picking on you. Im no mechanic, trust me. Ive actually only taken off the driver side valve cover, never tried the passenger yet...and im sure it will take much longer cause of all the crap on that side of the car.

 

Hey dont take it personally, i didnt mean it that way. Everyone has their skills in some area or another. As for me being a mechanic, ha! I tend to break stuff more often that i am able to fix it. lol

 

Dont forget, it takes a while on a bone stocker without all the vacuum lines/egr/other bulll****, most of us probably have that removed already so its just a matter of 3 bolts on the alt and then 8 cover bolts and thats it. i just did rockers on my buddys car and it took me quite a while to get the pass cover off after i got the alternator off.

 

so is the swap on a stock motor worth it? cause i have a set of roller rockers of an LT4 that i was planning on putting on my car for a quick free mod for a few ponies. will they make any performance difference? do they cause more harm than good on a stock motor? would the LT4 KM help anything with them? thanks.

 

Hows the valve train noise?