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Offline crider

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BBC stud girdles
« on: October 15, 2016, 05:42:37 AM »
Does anyone here know what stud girdle will fit BBC pro comp heads? I ordered one from procomp and it won't work on their own heads. So now I really don't know which one to try. I'm running out of time before winter is going to shut me down for the year
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2016, 11:02:49 AM »
Call JOMAR  they only make girdles and they make the very best--they can advise you how to measure so they can send you one that works! When you get the chance sell those and get some different heads--the guides are yellow like bronze but they are soft as butter!! They will soon be sloppy worn--also take great care when screwing in studs--they use an oddball china helicoil in the threads on some of their heads-- it is very weak and a really goofball size--not metric and not US  Jomar is the best place to try--call them Monday--they are very helpful and they sell the Baldwin oil filters with no bypass too! Good Luck!
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2016, 11:25:28 AM »
Thanks Dave. I'll give hem a call on Monday. I replaced all the guides and put good valves springs and such in them, but I will be in the market for a some real heads in the future
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2016, 03:57:09 AM »
I'm trying to be polite.
Don't buy Pro Comp stuff
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2016, 02:59:02 PM »
You don't have to be polite for my sake. I know better than to buy their stuff too, I just put this motor together with the junk I had laying around
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2016, 04:25:13 PM »
sometimes those kind of engines run the best! Rock on man! get her ready!
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2016, 05:50:19 PM »
I'm getting close Dave, Just have to get the wheelie bars finished and do the wiring and radiator hoses
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2016, 10:26:13 PM »
Quote from: crider on October 15, 2016, 05:42:37 AM
Does anyone here know what stud girdle will fit BBC pro comp heads? I ordered one from procomp and it won't work on their own heads. So now I really don't know which one to try. I'm running out of time before winter is going to shut me down for the year


Hello, how don't they fit? This is my experience.

I have brodix bb2 plus heads , I used comp cams gold rockers and jomar girdles. jomar girdles wouldn't work, the rockers hit the girdles no matter what I did. I installed brodix stud girdles and had no problem. NOt so tall rockers, maybe like Harland sharps, would have cleared with the jomars.
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Re: BBC stud girdles
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2016, 03:27:18 AM »
The stud spacing was wrong. I bought a set of Jomar's and took care of that trouble
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