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Poll: What do you consider a safe minimum piston-valve clearance.

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Now that I've finally got measurements I believe in and know my clearances I'm curious what the pros use for safe minimum p2v for a street car. Let's assume the valves are well under control from the springs for the sake of this poll since I believe that to be the case for my engine given I am running stiffer springs than needed (my Crower springs claim to be good up to 9,500rpm and my rev-limit will be much lower at around 8,400 rpm). In case your answer varies by engine it's a Honda b18c with overhead cams and solid rockers.

I know the generally accepted magic numbers are .100" for exhaust and .080" for intake but I also know that many of you deviate from this quite a bit. Let's see what sort of variety of numbers you tend to go by.

Here's one I thought was interesting. On the high-end V8's such as prostock etc, they work out to have negative static clearance. These things will have 200lb seat pressure and 1200lb over the nose though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdB9-vyUoc

That was actually an awesome video! Confirms a lot of things I’ve been working on recently and figured out the round about way.

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