Valve lash compensation

.616 , wound up w/ .591 , at the retainer .
I had a .573 lift cam after lash of .019 end up at .530

When you get a pattern that's off to the exhaust real far chances are you're losing a lot of lift. If it's to the intake side, like never is, you gain or make up for in a incomplete weird way being the geometry issue still lingering