<VV> valve adjustment

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>>>But, if I'm not mistaken cold adjust is the place to start only if you're so far off that it's necessary to find the 'start point' ?
>>>

I'd agree -- on a new rebuild, you have to get the valves adjusted close 
enough to get the cold engine to start, so that you can then adjust the 
valves hot.

Not that it pertains to Corvairs, but I prefer to adjust solid lifter 
engines hot & running, too.  Hard on feeler gauges, but works rather 
well.  That's what pressure washers are for -- cleaning up the mess.

A dynamic adjustment will always be superior to a static adjustment -- 
the doing of it is open to debate.

Bill Strickland