1997 717 Speedster Rotary Valve Specs and Question

[Chips]

I am putting a refurbished rotary cover on my 717 and have two questions:

1) My surface that's part of the block has two scratches on it...they are sorta bad. Is that going to cause an issue and if so, how the heck do I fix it outside of replacing the entire bottom end case.

2) what are the torque specs for the rotary valve cover and the intake part that goes on the rotary valve cover.

Thanks! And, I can snap a quick pic of the scratches if that would help...

 

[Dr Honda]

1) need a pic to say.

2) Very light. 20 N-m (about 15 Lb-ft)

 

[Chips]

1) need a pic to say.

2) Very light. 10 N-m (about 8 Lb-ft)

Thanks Dr. Honda. I should have took some pics before I got it all together. I will probably take it apart next weekend anyway so I will take a pic then and show you. I took it out to the lake and port engine has always given me issues with not revving. At first (first 5 mins) the engine revved decently, not all the way though and then after another 5 minutes it started to get worse to the point the engine wouldn't rev at all.

Idled back to the dock, put it on the trailer and pulled it out of the water. I fired up both engines to blow out the remaining water and the port engine revved instantly and sounded perfect. Is there a baseline reason why the engines act differently under a load? Both engines are running about 125psi compression on my gauge which seems a bit low but the starboard engine runs fine...revs out and never gives me issues.

Over the past year I have on both engines:

Replaced: Carbon ring, boot, wear ring. rebuilt carb with OEM rebuild kit. Popped head off and replaced gaskets. Pistons and cylinders looked great. There is no play in the rod.

The rotary cover was really worn on each side of port engine so I replaced that and that's when I noticed the two scratches on the case part of the rotary assembly. I thought this was going to solve the not revving issue but its doing the exact same thing still.

Anyway, sorry for the long winded explanation after asking for torque specs.

Thanks!