Uncle Tony says Gen III hemi has inherent lifter lubrication problems. Agree?
I forgot to mention earlier, I have been seeing it on the 5.3 chevy LS motors also, and they dont have the exact oiling design as the hemi. When I say "delamination" I'm referring to peices of metal separating off the cam lobes, sometimes in little chunks, pits, slivers, ect. And lobes that had not yet failed, the lifter wheel was intact, wheel rolling smoothly on the bearing still, but peices of lobe all ready flaking off....those flakes are what lock up the lifter wheel, not the other way around. It appears to ME, that it's a poor quality casting of the cam core. The SRT engines dont have the problem, they have a different camshaft, but the oiling system is the same as non-SRT engines. Therefore, the oiling theory just doesn't hold water.