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oooh happy day! Car has been aweful noisy on cold starts and since the spark plug incident it began consuming oil. So today I decided to yank the valve cover off quicklike and measure the valve-tappet-to-cam clearances. Spec is .008" intake and .012" exhaust, both +/- .001.

I could not even get a .005" inbetween most tappets and the cam, all except one actually. Yippee skippee. The car still runs dandy and made 599whp at map's fall dyno day but honestly I'm worried about it. It seems as though there's an issue either with the valves or the valve seats.

Either way I will be seeking second opinions and looking into options but likely I'll be pre-scheduling some machine-shop time, praying to the valve tappet gods (if they don't line up I'll have to order a bunch from mitsu...$20 each x 16 :P ), and yanking the head. If I do I might downgrade to some beehive springs (weren't available when I first built it) and I can't help but wonder about swapping in a set of S2's....decisions decisions.

If I do pull it off I might swap out my (edit, wtf I guess I just stopped typing :P)