06-19-2008, 11:38 AM | #1 |
Senior Moment
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Pittsburg Ca
Posts: 4,156
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Ouch it Broke
Father’s day my son and I went to a car show. On the way home I opened up the electric cut outs on the headers and let her rip down the freeway, LOTS OF NOISE AND FUN. Anyway as we come off the freeway ramp I said to my son "see when it gets warm you can hear that damn lifter ticking" (Typical Big Block) than all of a sudden it got a whole lot louder. Oh Sh!t I said I think we broke some thing, as it dropped a cylinder. Managed to get it home and pulled the valve cover, hey where’s the push rod? oh here it is way down in the hole. I pulled the push rod out then said "hey where’s the lifter?
I pulled the intake and there it was lying in the valley. Long story short it killed the cam, those good hard push rods I bought took did a fine job of dinging up the lobe. This motor always sounded like solid lifters even though it is hydraulic so I said “well if it wants to sound like solids then solid shall be”. I ordered a Lunati 20202: it’s the 396/427 HiPerf cam that came in the 69/70 SS Chevelle’s. I'll let you know how it all works out when I get it in. Cam should be here early next week
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