Thread: Valve settings
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Old 16 Feb 2007, 09:51 pm
jim beam
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Default Re: Valve settings

Tegger wrote:
> jim beam <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote in news:dbKdndIaoY-
> p9EvYnZ2dnUVZ_t_inZ2d@speakeasy.net:
>
>> Tegger wrote:
>>> solocrx <solocrx.2m4cl5@no-mx.nodomain.com> wrote in news:solocrx.2m4cl5
>>> @no-mx.nodomain.com:
>>>
>>>> Can you help me out and tell me what the valve settings are or tell me
>>>> where i might find them for a jdm ZC 1.5 thank you very much
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Intake: 0.005"-0.007"
>>> Exhaust 0.006"-0.008"
>>>
>>> Checked and adjusted dead-COLD.
>>>

>> what's that in [honda] metric?
>>

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> What? I put an "inches" symbol in there, so...


i don't have feeler gauges for 0.127mm or 0.1778mm. my point is,
original spec is metric, so for anyone that has metric gauges [ME!!!],
they can be anal and set without fractional b.s.

>
> Honda-metric is verbal, not numerical. Such as:
> "Clank" for "crank";
> "Reak cover" for "leak cover".
> (actual quotes from factory shop manual)
>
> Nissan was worse. I once saw a set of floor mats with the label
> "**** FLOOR MAT". They meant "Front Floor Mat" of course...
>
>

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