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A longer valve would only make this situation worse, as would lash caps. The OP said the rocker had a lot of angle which would be made worse with this approach, not to mention have terrible geometry. The rockers are manufactured with plenty of clearance for the spring if the rocker is properly located. It needs to be moved to the right place!


My question has always been this. How could a company that's made as many heads as Edelbrock, screw up the rocker shaft location on the Victors so bad? All I hear about these heads is how rockers and push rods don't fit.
Doug


The question is "Where should they put it?". When the Chrysler designed the head, it was for a specific valve length, lift range, and rocker design. Considering most performance or race engines share none of these specs, how could they possibly put it in the "right" place?


Exactly, The factory Mopar head from 1962 has plenty of short comings. So I guess if I was designing a max wedge port race style head it would have started by using a 2" installed height 1.625" spring for a .750" lift cam that used existing rocker arms. I agree it's impossible to get it dead on for every combo. But lets at least get it close. I had to move my T&D stand on my -1s to get it where I wanted it. That being said the former owner of my heads ran them on his car for years with the rockers in the wrong position. At least the parts didn't crash into each other. I haven't seen one set of Victors that could be bolted together and run with out something hitting. I could understand that if they were something special. Why not just run -1s?
Doug