im curious if anyone has used this valvetrain. a fellow honda-techer told me about them but i jus want some real life experiences wit this valvetrain. its pretty cheap and i jus want to know anytthing about them. good? bad? any problems? any info is greatly appreciated

 

 

What company makes his valvetrain?

 

I personally have run the valvetrain for 2 years, never have had a problem.
They are very stiff. lots of 9,000 to 10,000 rpm pulls.

 

I just got mine from IB nice stuff but I was hoping the steel retainers would snap in tight into the springs to allow transfer of harmonics from spring to retainer to valve stem. The springs were interference fit which is good but the retainers should be also, there not. The rocket stuff I believe is done right with all the parts with a tight fit but I don't believe he offers the retainers in steel like IB. I like steel retainers for street use. Are you listening rocket. Dan

 

Hey Dan, I hear what you are saying about steel retainers but the snap fit titanium really works great. I recently took apart a head with RM gen 2 spring and retainers after a full season of hard use. Zero wear on the retainers.

 

"A full season" sounds like a racing app, street is a different animal. Also I like the lower cost of steel and good steel retainers will never wear out. For racing titanium is the way to go. Dan

 

I'm too used to my area, the northeast where snow is here for 5 months. It was a street motor. 7-8k miles.

 

thanks for the info. my car is used as adaily driver so steel would be better for me also

 

David Sparling has been running the same set of RM retainers for 3 years. You will have to ask him what the mileage is. Rocket has mentioned that he is willing to make steel retainers, if people want them. Honestly though, I think you are trying to fix something that isn't broken

 

they buy the JG vavletrian and relabled it and sells it for more

 

Yes, almost sure it is JG (or at least it was JG a year ago).
Here is mine...

 

yep its jg might as well just go to jg and save some cash

 

yes sir. those are jg i have the same ones.

 

My IB springs aren't red like JG's, bought them early last year...shrug

 

Who cares until it doing its job...

 

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who cares, ill tell you who cares the customer, they want to know there getting the part described not whatever junk he gets a deal on.

 

I am his customer. Also, I shared on H-T my quite negative experience with him.

BUT, I am not convinced or told by anybody that JGE valvetrain we are talking about here is junk... maybe it is junk maybe it is not. I am courious to find out.

 

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BUT, I am not convinced or told by anybody that JGE valvetrain we are talking about here is junk... maybe it is junk maybe it is not. I am courious to find out. </TD></TR></TABLE>

not saying the jg valvetrain is junk, im saying that you don't know what you will get when buying from import builders, he get his parts from whoever sales them cheapest, so might be jg, might be some off brand junk, so if you want jg buy jg from jg don't support the ib junk

 

ib isn't junk, its just relabeled good products

 

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its relabeled whatever he can get good or bad so you might get a nice jg valve train or you might get some junk form some other shop depending on the deal he gets

 

what are these then?

 

oh god. those darker ones look like steel retainers. This is why masterbuilder hates IB with a passion.

hate to say it but masterbuilder is correct 100%

IB is relabled anything that they can get there hands on.

They should change there name to ANYTHING SPEC

anything they get there hands on is IBSPEC.

Hey masterbuilder why dont you get the same products masterbuilder spec??

one question ? if i bougth a JG vavletrain kit which IB just buys from and relabels( this was confirmed by my source) and called it IB spec cus someone said IB is the best would that be scamming.?