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[TR] Purely Subjective Question re. TR3A Valve Settings

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Subject: [TR] Purely Subjective Question re. TR3A Valve Settings
From: terryrs@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:08:46 +0000 (UTC)
Just curious if anyone cares to venture: what would be the loss of power due to 
poor breathing, if one (omigoodness, not me, no--not me!) were to, say, adjust 
the valves properly...well, except when the engine had not yet cooled more than 
halfway.  Would one, and of course am speaking only hypothetically here, about 
someone else...uhm, ehr, would the clearance .010 gap actually be smaller by 
say a hundredth, and what effect does that actually have on performance.  

Should he-who-can't-be-named have to worry about burning valves here????  Or 
would it be just the mild loss of acceleration and top end speed????

Terry Smith,'59 TR3A
New Hampshire

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