... and it's worse with hydraulic roller lifters - shorter pushrod = more angle. It's fairly subjective but in my experience it's .018-.022" less with 1.5s in most circumstances.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.