G'day GB.
Still it sounds fishy with both inlet adjusters down that far. Almost like the valve stems need caps (65-209) like the old long strokes.
Yes, those inlet tappet adjusters are a worry but at least they are both the same. The exhaust ones are normally adjusted.
Any time I've had a pushrod sitting on the edge of a follower the adjuster had to be wound right out so I knew something was wrong.
Seems that the one I got wrong yesterday must have been on the edge of the cup, but as they are screwed down so far when properly adjusted, (since the new bits were put in) it was not obvious that the other one was actually too high; it appeared normal and the other one was unusually low! Does that make sense?
I wish I'd compared the old followers with the SRM ones more carefully; maybe the inlet ones are shorter.
The Inlet rockers look identical, but maybe both have been bent to the same degree, somehow? I know the steel SRM pushrods are very strong but if the rockers have been bent I'd expect the pushrods to have suffered also.