Uncle Tony says Gen III hemi has inherent lifter lubrication problems. Agree?
This is a very interesting thread.
There is lots of input by people who have either worked on the cars over several years ''in the trenches'' and we have a lot of valid points, including Tony's.
To summarize the findings that I have read so far, the camshafts are weak in the engines other than the SRT engines that had cams made out of a better material as well as the valve springs and lifters.
So, a fix would be to adopt the ''good'' parts from the SRTs or aftermarket.
However, the SRT or performance cars aren't generally idled for long periods of time, but the good metallurgy would make up for it if they were?
Honestly, I think that Tony is on to something with the minimal oiling of these engines by design to start with.
That is the REAL problem, and it needs to be addressed.
It is a definite design flaw from the start, the rest are band aid solutions...........