For the sake of me learning a thing or two, what was the reason you decided to go with the conical valve rather than a flat top piston setup? Advantages? Disadvantages? Looks like a great build! Thank you - Jayson
I saw you made the balanced valve and had read your other thread on that. Looked at a neat project. Have been trying to weigh the practicality of the extra work vs the extra time vs extra performance gained for the plastic fantastic build I have going on. I am going to further lengths than I probably should, and trying to learn as much as I can in the process. My take on the balanced valve is that it is a more complicated system (with another area available for air leakage), that allows you to use a lighter hammer spring and a lighter hammer which should help with a less violent firing cycle and greatly speed up the firing cycle resulting in less lock time. Am I missing anything in that equation? Are you making more power with the balanced valve over an otherwise modified for performance valve?