Cam Problem!

Xstream_1 said

I just got off of the phone with Lunati and Comp and both are reccomending break in with Shell Rotella T oil, something about the zinc and phosphorus content, and both reccomend using 7 to 8 quarts initialy on break in, yet both still have standard motor oils listed in the break in prcedures on the paperwork that comes with the cams!

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This is all CRAP the cam grinders tell us to cover the fact that the current cam blanks are porous and soft, which is the real reason so many cams are going flat.
I've noticed a marked increase in this over the past 5 years.

It's hard to believe that even engine builders with DECADES of experience can't install a cam without it having a lobe go flat.
Insist to Comp Cams that it was a defect in manufacture and at least get another cam from them.

YES, definitely tear the engine down and clean the heck out of it, better replace the oil pump, too.

Mark.