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My Z is on a strict diet of pump RON 99 in the UK at $8 a gallon

My Z is on a strict diet of pump RON 99 in the UK at $8 a gallon
Where do you even get 99 Ali? Mine is happy with 95.

A side note.

Europe 98RON =94us (Ron+MON/2) and 95RON =91us.

Where do you even get 99 Ali? Mine is happy with 95.


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Question: Valves for my ”new” E88 EFI head  have 42mm intake and 35 exhaust valves. 

Intake valves will be swapped for bigger ones, but how big? 44, 45, 46mm?

What about the ex valves, keep the 35mm or go bigger?

Were to buy valves? Any recommendations/links to a good shop?

L28 + 1 mm, flattops (no valve cut outs) 535 lift cam.

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Here’s an E88 Efi Head with 46mm intake valves so it can be done. This head was/is on a 88mm bore L28. Don’t know if i really would need to go any bigger then 44mm. It’s not a race car i’m building but i don’t want to go to small either.08334783-0272-416E-96BD-AAA2C1BF006F.jpeg6F20D818-508C-49DE-A4D2-8905B3C7C823.jpeg

IMHO - 44 for your engine size . If it was a bigger liter motor , or you were planning on spinning it way up high rpm , then maybe bigger valves . Can you go too big - I doubt it , so no time then the present to cover all the bases .

Quite sure you can buy valves from Rebello - and he would give some free advice since your buying ?

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I recall seeing ratios for exhaust  to intake ~67% for some reason.  I may have averaged racing head data in this book long ago:

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