EVO Cam and lifter advice
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From: SE Louisiana
Good move, I was going to suggest the EV46.
I bought a bike that had the 46, it was stock except for a E carb & the cam.
It ran OK, but after I bumped the compression using .010" base, &.030" head gaskets, then decked the heads .060", I came to life, it pulled hard and had a good sounding idle. The valve train made zero noise.
It had 180psi cranking compression after the bump, but it was on the borderline of needing compression releases, it sometimes wanted to buck the starter.
If you want to change the springs, OEM or equivalent would do, no need for anything heavier with that cam.
I sold that bike, and every once in a while the guy I sold it to would drop by, I'd be in the house or shop and hear a bike pull up thinking to myself," Damn that bike sounds good". I go out and it was my old bike. should've kept it.
It sound better in person than in the video
I bought a bike that had the 46, it was stock except for a E carb & the cam.
It ran OK, but after I bumped the compression using .010" base, &.030" head gaskets, then decked the heads .060", I came to life, it pulled hard and had a good sounding idle. The valve train made zero noise.
It had 180psi cranking compression after the bump, but it was on the borderline of needing compression releases, it sometimes wanted to buck the starter.
If you want to change the springs, OEM or equivalent would do, no need for anything heavier with that cam.
I sold that bike, and every once in a while the guy I sold it to would drop by, I'd be in the house or shop and hear a bike pull up thinking to myself," Damn that bike sounds good". I go out and it was my old bike. should've kept it.
It sound better in person than in the video
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Poolville
Good move, I was going to suggest the EV46.
I bought a bike that had the 46, it was stock except for a E carb & the cam.
It ran OK, but after I bumped the compression using .010" base, &.030" head gaskets, then decked the heads .060", I came to life, it pulled hard and had a good sounding idle. The valve train made zero noise.
It had 180psi cranking compression after the bump, but it was on the borderline of needing compression releases, it sometimes wanted to buck the starter.
If you want to change the springs, OEM or equivalent would do, no need for anything heavier with that cam.
I sold that bike, and every once in a while the guy I sold it to would drop by, I'd be in the house or shop and hear a bike pull up thinking to myself," Damn that bike sounds good". I go out and it was my old bike. should've kept it.
It sound better in person than in the video
https://youtu.be/3ECgVqBGeIM
I bought a bike that had the 46, it was stock except for a E carb & the cam.
It ran OK, but after I bumped the compression using .010" base, &.030" head gaskets, then decked the heads .060", I came to life, it pulled hard and had a good sounding idle. The valve train made zero noise.
It had 180psi cranking compression after the bump, but it was on the borderline of needing compression releases, it sometimes wanted to buck the starter.
If you want to change the springs, OEM or equivalent would do, no need for anything heavier with that cam.
I sold that bike, and every once in a while the guy I sold it to would drop by, I'd be in the house or shop and hear a bike pull up thinking to myself," Damn that bike sounds good". I go out and it was my old bike. should've kept it.
It sound better in person than in the video
https://youtu.be/3ECgVqBGeIM
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From: la la land jerzey
We use the b hive single valve springs they are the real deal today and i dont cut the heads its a one way street when you do that sounds almost the same with out and no starter issues or detonation with the gas today
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From: USA
Do you have a link to a beehive spring kit?
I found these Andrew's valve springs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155233276879
I found these Andrew's valve springs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155233276879