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Are you spinning the cam with an electric drill? Is the cam gear installed? Are the pushrods in with rocker arms? You must have load on the lifters in order for the crown on the lifter and the taper on the lobe to make it spin, and then it looks more like a jerking motion than an a smooth spin...

If you have enough clearance between the valves and piston, and enoughspring travel to avoid coil bind, and enough clearance between the bottom of the valve spring retainer and the top of the valve guide, then by all means use the higher rocker ratio. It is worth more power without the negatives...

The Chevy guy who left the lifters in was running a roller cam with the lifters that are the horizontal spring loaded link bars. Those raise themselves up far enough for the cam lobes to clear.

You could either have one of the plug wires on wrong, or you have lost a lobe on the cam during break in.

Look at the side of the rod. You will see a chamfer that is there to provide clearance for any radius the crank may have. The locking tabs will be next to one another and facing the outside of the engine when you have that cap and rod chamfer matched up. This is the way the rod must be hung on...

What camd64 said about using candlewax is right on. Seems too simple to work, but it does.

There is an oil gallery plug inside the engine near where the distributor drops in but faces towards the rear. If you have the engine on the stand out of the car, or if the tranny is out, you can access that plug through the exterior plug. With the manifold off, spin the pump and look for oil...

Have not been following lately. Did you ever change the pick-up coil in the distributor?? I know it was suggested. Do you have a ground strap to the firewall from the engine?? Heat increases resistance to the point that ignition components fail to operated correctly. Everything you say points...

You can call the Crane tech line and give them your number YC1707, that is its serial number. They can pull the book from their library with that series of numbers and tell you everything, plus send you a cam spec card. You did not mention what kind of engine it is from.

Sounds like the pickup coil in the distributor is bad. Especially when it gets "heat soak" after getting off the highway.

Call Vinnie Catalozzi in Winter Springs, Fl at Sunrise Auto Body. He has a brand new Mopar 318 stroker crank that he wants, I believe $150.00 for. He had it at a swap meet in Melbourne last week, and if I remember, would make a 358 cu in motor. Phone 1-407-695-0421

You can get an upgrade coil from Crane, and also get the low resistance carbon button or you will melt the cap.

This is an interesting subject. You did not mention what the lobe seperation is. It may be 106 and if the advance is already built in of 4 degrees, then the intake center would be 102. I had a cam designer years ago tell me that all engines run better at 102?? Now he was an invovator of "tight...