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Old 03-16-2014, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Roberts View Post
Then what does the term tunnel port refer too? I must be ignorant..
A straight port, nothing more, nothing less. That was the advantage of the tunnel port head over other designs of that timeframe. Evidently no one had tried moving the pushrod out of the port and/or probably did not have the supporting hardware to move it.

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