Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

I went to Real Steel today and showed my valves to their engine guru for his opinion.
Apparently it's completely normal for a small burr to occur on the collet ridge on the valve stem & it should be deburred with a fine diamond stone.
However he looked at my valves and although he thought they were ok & usable he thought I might want to put new ones in anyway.

So, I now have a new set of Manley valves to lap in tonight - oh joy, my favourite job :evil:

With all the valves lapped in I reassembled 2 of them without springs and fitted the head with gasket on one side to check clearances. With zero lash set up I checked the inlet & exhaust with the std rockers and there is plenty of room Exhaust has 0.176in clearance;



And inlet a bit less with the stem seal fitted - could not get the digital vernier in the gap but its plenty anyway.


Gaps will be a little tighter with the roller tip rockers (1.52 ratio) than with the ones in the pics (1.50 ratio) but still plenty of room so heads can go back on today

Also checked the rocker tip fitting and its bang on the first 1/3 of the valve stem, so pushrods are perfect length - at least I got that bit correct!

Well curse word :grr: things are not going well - heads need to come off again for pushrod clearances with the new roller tip rockers according to the instructions and pushrods are a bit too long now as well due to the new ratios.

Instructions also say if you have a high pressure or volume oil pump you need to fit oil deflectors on the valvetrain as it damages the rocker arms & pushrods otherwise *sigh* bit f***ed off with it right now - mojo seriously dented

Sorry to hear that , my mojo is boosted just looking at this thread , sadly my woeful efforts wont do the same for you.
Chin up ,

How much oil pressure is it running? :-O

Just gotta keep that first green light as your motivation dude!

Bummer that !!!!!

Could you not crank the engine over slowly by hand with the pushrods in and see if they rub on the holes in the head before you decide to drill them out?

Only needs one bit of swarf in the engine to accelerate mayor wear once you start it up

Should have stuck with a Ford engine !!!!!!!!!

Good luck though

Back on track again, rockers studs & guideplates are back in the heads and pushrod length is being checked, unfortunately the tool Real Steel sold me was the wrong length so I cant check the correct length yet.

This is with the 7.8 inch rods in, which are too long.


This is the dipstick, I'm wondering if the outer tube should be longer as the original dipstick had been worn by the crank. The tube end feels a bit rough so might have been cut by a previous owner, any thoughts anyone?


Engine beginning to look a bit more engine like, inlet is only resting on at present.

Thanks mate, I like the valve covers too

The reason I ask about the outer tube for the dipstick is that it can flap about quite a bit beyond the outer tube (which is why the original had almost been cut in half by the crank?) so if the outer tube was longer it would keep the dipstick away from the crank?

I think I've sussed the old one, it was about 3" longer and would have been hitting the oil pickup which would have pushed it sideways so the crank could hit it.

The new one finishes just above the oil pickup so should be fine. It cant get near the crank now even if I push it with my finger, though I would agree that I would prefer the tube to be longer. I blueprinted the oil pump today but might leave the sump loose for a bit while I sort out a different pump spring, so I might be able to get a longer outer tube at the same time.

The valve covers were bought, but the welder at my company could weld them a lot nicer than that!