Friday 2 April 2010

Valve train upgrades

Small, but important and impossible to find off-the-shelf ones of the correct dimensions. That is the conclusion I came to after reconditioning a few cylinder heads - we just couldn't find any which were of the correct OD and ID so had a batch made for ours and your use which fit easily and don't give that 'But the valve still flops around like the guide is 100,000 miles old' feeling like most do.




Made from Aluminium-bronze these fit just great and will outlast the originals easily. If you want them fitting then send your head up to us and we'll do them for you, we have the correct tools and equipment to do the job properly and with the miniumum of fuss.

If you've managed to make a mess of removing the old ones and require an oversized OD then contact us, we can order in some for you.

Also available are Nimonic exhaust valves, nice, light and swirl polished on the back of the heads on the standard size and they can be made in bigger diameters if you need a big valve head for quicker turbo spool up time. The last set went out to a customer as quickly as they came in so we only had time to get these shots!

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To finish things off with the ultimate in valve reaction time and lightness are these new tappet buckets with tiny shims which go underneath and sit on top of the valve stem. Buckets are anti-friction coated and the weight saving is well worth having.




Prices will be uploaded on the website.

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Welcome to the Deltaparts Blog, here you will find, well, anything which is on my mind I guess, but mainly things to do with the Lancia Delta integrale and in particular anything to do with my business, Deltaparts. It will be a bit irregular as it's not every day (or even week) that something worth mentioning happens. I would like to try and make it interesting - at least to some people anyhow, but also hopefully accessible and readable for the average 'man on the street' so I won't bore you with loads of large words, bombastic overblown sentences or technical jargon. I will describe on here how lots of the parts that we sell came about as there isn't room on the website ( www.deltaparts.co.uk ) to explain. I hope you enjoy reading it as I do writing it, when something becomes a chore you know it's time to stop doing it....