Guides are just fine, I have stainless EPN valves the combo seems perfect regarding clearance.
They are not pressed yet, I also need to define the dimensions of my seat 3 angle cut.
It's funny that you talk about going the easiest way .. in fact when I tried my car it seemed to have a heavy H1 harmonic that was really easy to feel off the idle. when I disassembled the engine I realized that pistons were changed, I check the wieght and they were equal to each other, BUT I saw nowhere any signs of balance, the crank seem absolutely untouched on the counter weight, flywheel also harmonic balancer the same.
So I guess my engine was basically unbalanced even on the first order : I mean the counter weight were not suitable for the pistons installed, and ... last but not least I think this has lead to destroy my shock towers ...
this is only one of the many things a retard has made to this engine... there's also cracked guides OD you know Cylinder head with much more volume than the other one ....
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