Teds deal sounds good, I am going to work on getting my Dove setup for the oem heads to fit. Toys are getting pricey now.

I checked Harland Sharp's website and could not find any reference to Y Blocks. Must be overlooking the obvious. I am a little concerned about having to have them custom fited by a shop. Dove seems to be end user installabile with instruction. Cost is an issue but I am more concerned with what will work and what I can easily install and service after the fact myself. I am thinking any of the mentioned roller rockers will work and improve performance.

At the risk of sounding like a commercial, $565 + shipping for the Harland Sharp ‘ready to run’ assemblies as provided by my shop.  But I am one of the few shops doing the Harland Sharp rockers for the Y engines.  For the iron heads, this includes new shafts and the factory stands.  For the aluminum heads, the customer will need to provide the specialized rocker shaft support stands that are included with the new heads.  Due to the rockers needing final clearancing for proper fitment to the shafts, Harland Sharp is currently referring all potential Y customers to shops that can insure that the rockers are final honed and assembled correctly depending upon the cylinder head being used.  Just email me at “ted at eatonbalancing dot com” if more details are needed.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

$910 as of Monday + $16 shipping for rockerarms.com.

Does anyone have priceing on the rockerarms.com and Harland Sharp setups?

Planing on going with the springs. Hope to call Dove tomorrow and order them. When I talked to them a week or two back they were out of stock but planed to have them soon. As always, great information here. Thanks to Ted and everyone else. Now if I can just figure out the piston rings-----

For my .02 cents worth the spacers are a lot of trouble getting the side clearance required between them. Then if you take the assembly off and put them back on you have to fiddle around as you bolt them back down to get the side clearance right again. More HP with springs and no shimming sounds like a no brainer to me.

  Vic Correnti

There have been no problems with fitment of the Dove or Harland Sharp roller rocker arm assemblies under the stock or Thunderbird valve covers to date.

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One more question. Is drilling the holes in the block and heads for cooling between the middle cylinders advisable with the aluminium heads?

I’m going out of my way to plug the holes in the blocks when they are present. On my end, no steam hole venting is required with standard height radiators.

Here are links to a couple of other threads on the subject.

 

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic18743.aspx

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic47206.aspx

Performing a search will bring up more on the topic.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Well, you mention you,re going to the states, there couldnt be a better opportunity while the dollar is the best its been, you could bring them home in suit cases, looks like a golden opportunity to me.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Great photos. I am assuming that the T-Bird valve covers will fit with the Dove setup? One more question. Is drilling the holes in the block and heads for cooling between the middle cylinders advisable with the aluminium heads?