What rocker arms to get or camshaft?

[jaynutz]

I had a quick question....I just recently had my intake upper,lower, heads all polished and match ported and i have seen some really good gains from the mod. i only problem is that i begin to lose power on top end. I was thinking of getting a set of rocker arms to help out the lift to get a longer duratiuon for the valves. i think we have a set of 1.6 but should i go with a set of 1.7's, 1.8's, 1.9's or should i go with a Comp cams. I use the car as a daily driver so i dont want to hurt my gas mileage too much. I already have my drivetrain done up with a set 3.42's, torque converter, and shift kit stage 3, and perma cool tranny cooler with cooling fan. the total goal of the car was to be a good all around performance machine. I am going to be tossing an ls1 in a 1 or 2 years so i didnt want to go to crazy.

[ June 01, 2002: Message edited by: jaynutz ]</p>

[Patrick Javert]

if you decide to get a new cam, ask the company that made the cam to suggest rocker ratios, springs, ect. if you're gonnat stick w/ the stock cam, www.3800performance.com has 1.9:1 aluminum roller rockers kit for 500 bucks. If you do higher ratio rockers, i suggest buying lightweight retainers and stiffer/lighter valvesprings to prevent valve float. They say that the 1.9:1 rockers work great w/ the stock cam and have very little valve float, if any, but I prefer to be on the safe side of things.