<VV> 140 Valve Seats

[Bruce Schug]

On Jun 9, 2004, at 4:42 PM, James Davis wrote:

> Please don't talk about dropped seats in 140 around my four.  They 
> don't know they are supposed to have a problem.  The Ultra Van has 
> 44,000 miles on a 140 engine with a OT-10 cam and headers. It sees 
> full throttle at 3,400 rpm for hours on end (1hr 45 minutes without 
> lifting is my record).  The air conditioned 61 Rampside has 11,000 
> miles on its new engine with Ray Sedman heads and cam.  The air 
> conditioned 66 Monza runs an OT-20 cam and Powerglide.  The champion 
> is the 65 Corsa convert with 230,000 miles on the engine (304 cam, 
> octane milled pistons.  No dropped seats since 1971.  It is in who 
> does the head (imho).
> Jim Davis
>

Jim,

Are these heads using stock unaltered seats or have they had "oversize" 
seats put it?

Bruce

Bruce W, Schug
CORSA South Carolina
Greenville, SC
bwschug@charter.net

CORSA member since 1981

'67 Monza. "67AC140"