on autos, gas flows towards ("upwards") the combustion chamber with the angeled reed position, which I think is a good thing. But on a non-reversed smallframe flow would be pointing away from the combustion chamber, downwards to the crankcase. If the reed flange is wanted to be perpendicular to the ground 45 degrees of deviation compared to 90 degrees to the barrel is the way to go. And that is 65° of total deviation compared to the autos. Apart from that, all you can fit cross to the rod without moving cylinder studs is about 40-45mm of maximum width, that is not much bigger than a crappy malossi reed valve. Oh yeah, and there's a stud in the way, too. But who cares about studs anyway when it comes to power Anolgside with the rod some seriously massive reed valves can be made to fit using some brains, and even the upper stud can be kept. gotta go for now, I got an appointment with the TIG welding apparatus