Broken valve spring dampeners on Champion heads

[Brandon Burnett]

I don't know if anyone else has had this happen, but I was inspecting my parts today and found a broken dampener. I installed the champion irons on my stock cam engine about 1000 miles ago. I recently changed the cam to a edelbrock 204/214 and installed the stock springs for the break in period. I looked at all my springs before reinstalling and noticed a broken dampener on the first spring on the passenger side.

 

[jpratt]

Had that had to me about seven years ago. Just about everyone was broken.

 

[Brandon Burnett]

I am installing a spring Dusty recommended instead. It's a Sealed Power vs739r. Have you been running a dampener or do you remove them?

 

[jpratt]

No dampner, I have no idea anymore what spring I have now though.

 

[bison]

I've seen many broken dampers over the years. I've seen more under sprung engines in the last year than broken dampers in the last 10 years.

 

[Brandon Burnett]

The ones it am installing are 104lbs at 1.700". If the dampener is just going to break I don't see any reason in using them, right?

 

[1fastcobra]

I run comp 981's with no damper
Had a few break and destroy the seal
Engine would smoke on start on start up
Dampers removed no more problems

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