I think replica racer is just busy doing his own thing and this is just a chat site and after a while it gets boring ...and after a while you got to get **** done not sit on here tapping keys.
The worst I saw was some people going on about regrinding lifters and their opinion on it. He accomplished what he needed to and no longer needs to be posting in this thread probably as well because he built the engine it's fixed it's great everyone is happy... the end, start another thread.