mostly I have my machinist do the heads. he builds sprit car and late model stock car engines and has been in the business a long time. so I trust him and I've never had a problem with anything plus he's a real nice guy. as said before I didn't have the spring available when I had the 356 heads worked on. so I wanted to do the springs myself as a learning experience, little did I know I would have all this problem with retainers. I really thought I could get on one of the forums and ask what springs and retainers do people with 356 A's use. i'm sure there has to be other people that have done this before. it just looks like the retainers the deep V ones that are pictured from Stoddard would let the installed height be more than the 41mm that I have. so shims would be necessary, lots of them maybe, that's not right. I don't know I don't have a deep V retainer. i'm thinking about ordering one to see how it fits
Jay D.
Jay D.
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