Cam wiped out, what the hell did I do wrong?!?!?
I almost never use lobes that were designed for 904 lifters. Unless it's a race application and we are doing the break in, I always spec 842 or 875 lobes. And some of the 875 lobes are just as bad as the 904 stuff.
Personally a super fast rate FT cam is the LAST thing you want because the lifter SKIDS on the lobe...not the time to ADD a fast rate of lift.
I talked with Dave Hughes last week about rocker arms, and we touched on the FT cams, and I told him about my roller lifters and wanted to offer them to him at a good price, and he told me "I almost never build roller cammed engines anymore". He said the bulk of their business was FT.
This is just the opposite of our business anymore. We are building more and more roller cammed engines.
And I'm working on a nice hyd. roller lifter that should drop right in a sb mopar and have good reliability even when pushed by lobe design.
And I'm hoping they will cost about the same as a set of sb chevy lifters!!
Brian