my engine builder lost 7 race engines when the “ zinc thing” started . he had to eat them, huge $ from big racers . . they ( comp) blamed oil . I saw Ford coyotes there with . 700 lift . serious stuff . he had tests done on comp hydraulic and solid lifters , they swore no changes. Flat out lies. He had old and new . Your could see different machining marks , he had them to show me— he had them tested , hardness and heat treat was totally different — as well as appearance He does hundreds of engines a year . They pushed roller cams “ due to zinc” ( coincidence ? -it was at the same time ) Now the real biggie ; he had in storage many 50 gallon drums of oil , years old , using the same oil all through this . Good stuff like Valvolline He let them blabber on in emails , then threatened suit as oil was exactly the same , no failures for 15 years then 7 in one year . They did a huge backtrack . Not sure how they settled , the usual “ admit no wrong “ here is cash . He believes it was all bs , caused by chinese or mexican lifters and a comp corporate strategy to deal with ?suddenly hundreds of cam failures . Note it is not cam , it was lifters all the millions of old darts and toyotas or chevy driving around with flat lifters did not suddenly start eating cams . But new engines did . I believe him . want the truth ? follow the $ john ps i am sure this is fixed now , comp cam design is technically pretty good , although not all agree . But best cam in the world is turned to junk with bad lifters . Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2023, at 4:14 PM, dplotkin <dplotkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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