[blykins]

Capri....

I've spent a great amount of time to help you out with this engine and you have basically ignored everything that I (along with a couple of other professional engine builders) have said, only to put stock and faith in several forum polls. Now you're asking for a "formula" from a random forum member. Your chewed up rocker studs and rocker arms were not because of bad assembly procedures. It was because your engine was losing control of the valvetrain at high rpms as I told you from the very beginning. Now you have replaced the rocker arms with a very expensive shaft mounted setup and you will still lose control of your valvetrain at the rpms that you're wanting to turn.

If you would have bought a billet cam, the correct springs, and a stud girdle, all of this would have been an after-thought and you would have spent a lot less money.

Experience and past data are tremendous helpers in building the right engine. Forum polls and magic formulas are not.

Since I have been wasting my time typing all of this repeatedly across 2-3 different threads, I will now wish you the best of luck.