Biggest mistake ever- lunati cams

MerlinsMopar said
Took the sm heads to a machine shop which was hard to find during the pandemic, still in the boxes to be checked and set up for my new cam choice. Paid them 1100$ to assure they were set up properly. Stock heads were worked before that by same shop. I explained that I wanted to use the lunati springs but when I picked them up, they were still on the stock heads. I told them they needed to be switched and asked them to leave the inner out for break in. The next day I went back and picked both sets of heads up. A year later when the car was painted, I was getting the valve train ready to put on action and noticed the dampers missing so I grabbed my compressor and started to install them. That's when I noticed the difference in size comparison to the sm heads original springs.
The machine shop screwed me and luckily I caught it. I then tried to find springs and or a solution to it and I did. There are thousands of springs out there and didn't feel like searching specs for another year to locate ones that would work. I reached out to the site, knowing that many here have used sm heads to see if they had a solution. I got mixed replies and wasn't taking a potluck chance. I tore the heads back off and to a different shop which stated simple spring pockets shims. I didn't know I could shim that much but apparently I can so I got out the rimac and height checker and got all within .010. I
I don't see how that's my fault.

How is it Lunati’s? How is it Speedmasters?

You started this thread by basically saying it was Lunati’s fault. Yeah, I get it, their customer service isn’t great if you can’t get through. But even if you got through, who did you think you were going to talk to? The days where you could call a company like Lunati and get an actual tech, and not just a customer service rep, have been gone for a long time. Even 20 years ago getting a tech on the line knowledgeable enough to have given you legitimate advice on spring heights and pressures for a specific combination would have been pretty unlikely.

Machinists and engine builders are where you get info like that. Sounds like your shop wasn’t all that knowledgeable, which is too bad. But it happens, and ultimately you also picked that shop. These things happen, sometimes certain combinations of parts are harder to make work together than others. But as others have already said, that’s what makes a good engine builder or machine shop. Immediately blaming Lunati and Speedmaster isn’t a good look, other people have made those combinations work. The specs are published, if you don’t want to take the time to find springs with the right specs that’s not on them.

Hell, it’s a lot easier than it used to be, there was a time in the not so distant past you’d have had to sort through a dozen different phone book thick parts catalogs to come up with the right parts. Now you just google it.