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Old 03-18-2021, 11:10 AM   #42
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Default Re: And the penalties are???

[QUOTE=Mike Pearson;636911]
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Originally Posted by Cbrinson47 View Post

Wesley was the tech guy during that tear down. When he found the valve just under the low limit he told me if I could find another caliper that measured the valve one thousanth bigger he would pass it. We checked the valve with 3 different calipers and they all measured the same. After I got home and fixed the heads I got to thinking I should have heated the valve to the temperature that it gets to when the engine is running and it might have grown .001 and passed.
It im not mistaken the exact same thing cost Lincoln Morehead the championship.
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