Explain to me again, please

[Dan Bennett]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

...Put a "valve spring rule" in place (200# sounds good) and watch how fast "we" go about figuring out how to make it work. I'll bet it will fix the AHFS in a hurry too!...


...take away the big valve spring pressures that let us over rev our "Stock" engines and watch how quickly "we" will figure it out.

One of the last conversations I had with Jere Stahl involved exactly this issue. As most people know, Jere had done an incredible amount of research and testing on headers that allowed him to develop formulas that were very effective. He was attempting to do the same thing with camshafts at that time.

His view was that the stratospheric spring pressures being used were just a crutch for less than optimal cam design. Yes, they were fast, but he was convinced that if the profile was designed correctly those pressures would not be needed. And like Billy mentioned, that eliminates a lot of other problems just by itself.

The team I working with that he was consulting for never felt the need to devote the time to come up with the data and measurement for our best (and worst) stuff that he said he needed. So I can't say if he was right or wrong, but looking at his career he was right a lot more times than he was wrong.