My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

Just got done assembly my sm heads after porting and valve job with backcut valves. Set the shafts in the saddles to check some geometry. Not a good fit at all. Seems they were machined for a .950 shaft. So now I have to make some special shims to make them work. I missed it. Live and learn.


How close is the geometry? If it needs to be corrected you can get ahold of Mike at B3 and tell him what you have and maybe he can make you shims to correct the big saddles.

I must say, I've never heard of any shafts that big so I'm stumped.