Not my Victors, but I'm still interested in this thread.
Is that combination going to need valve cover spacers now?
He has pretty tall fabbed valve covers, so I doubt it. The real problem is side clearance. Edelbrock raised the rail on these heads, but they went straight up instead of on the incline of the valve, and that crowds the tail end of the rocker. You definitely couldn't use a cast cover.
On my SB stuff I have to use reverse lip valve covers and still have to notch the lip of the cover and the gasket to clear
Yeah Mike, the fabbed covers have that reverse lip. If the rockers weren't so darned long, some of those issues could be eliminated.
Mike Beachel
I didn't write the rules of math nor create the laws of physics, I am just bound by them.
