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Got my Mallory 6AL CDI installed and my modified rotor - less the buit in resistor - in the mail today. Sunday I will be able to run without floating my valves!

What fun is that? Oh wait... you're not driving a Fiat are you? Darn!!

I used to rev the snot out of my 914. But the downside was I had to adjust the valves all the time. I don't if there is any modern fix to that, but ever trip to the canyons in my dark dangerous past resulted in a week or two of being down on power til I had time to tune it up. Wasn't the most fun job in the world on a 914.

Getting your valve train geometry perfect and running 911 swivel foot adjusters has pretty much cured that. If yours were going tight that's another problem all together. :barf:

Aaron McKinnon wrote:Getting your valve train geometry perfect and running 911 swivel foot adjusters has pretty much cured that. If yours were going tight that's another problem all together. :barf:

No they'd go loose like you'd expect. It was probably stock valve train with a bigger cam so, not ideal. I wasn't totally sure what it was, because I had a VW guy do the engine work on that car and it was usually used parts he'd find me cheap cheap. I was a poor HS kid with multiple cool cars. It was 25 years ago, so memory is foggy. I know I ran it above 7000. Just can remember how far past. Don't know what the cam was, but it definitely liked higher rpms and hurt the lowend quite a bit. The sound revving it out with a big cam and the Borla exhaust was something I really miss.