piston-to-valve clearance

Proper piston-to-valve clearance is essential to the health of your engine. And by essential, we mean your powerplant could meet its catastrophic demise without the right clearance between these two vital engine components. We covered the ins and outs of checking piston-to-valve clearance in an earlier post, but this video provides the actual visuals to go along with

Like a chance meeting between a jealous wife and a flirty ex-girlfriend, having your pistons and valves come in contact can be very bad—and possibly destructive. That’s why it’s important to check piston-to-valve clearance, especially on racing camshafts and aggressive, high-lift street cams. The camshaft and valvetrain experts at COMP Cams put together this easy, seven-step process for checking piston-to-valve