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Old Oct 1, 2015 | 10:32 PM
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I need to know if 1976 L48 pushrods are ok for use with 062 vortec heads or should I seek out some pushrods that came with vortec heads?
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Looking in the Chevrolet Performance Parts Catalog they list only two pushrods for flat tappet usage, standard length and .1 longer.
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I need to know if 1976 L48 pushrods are ok for use with 062 vortec heads or should I seek out some pushrods that came with vortec heads?
Worked on mine.
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Stock pushrods worked with mine too.
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Thanks alot! I have a recent rebuild (before I bought the car) and I'm just going with swapping the heads, intake, and some Hooker headers with free flowing exhaust for now. I know I should swap the cam but I'm not at this time. Did you guys do a cam swap when you swapped the heads? If not, was there a noticable performance boost?
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While you have it apart I would check the cam, if stock L48 replace it, there are better cams than that one
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Originally Posted by ykf7b0
Thanks alot! I have a recent rebuild (before I bought the car) and I'm just going with swapping the heads, intake, and some Hooker headers with free flowing exhaust for now. I know I should swap the cam but I'm not at this time. Did you guys do a cam swap when you swapped the heads? If not, was there a noticable performance boost?
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While you have it apart I would check the cam, if stock L48 replace it, there are better cams than that one
Not an option at this point.
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