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Old 11-22-2002, 12:40 PM
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The reason the beehive spring was designed was to eliminate the need to machine the valve spring pocket. It is the same diameter at of a stock spring on the bottom and gets bigger in diameter towards the top. No other advantage over a normal spring.
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