Recent content by River Rat

This is with fresh factory ride height HD rear springs and 15x8 wheel with 245/60.

I will see if I can get you some pics. The panel was a door kick plate that I bought from Amazon…it was already black crinkle finish, just cut it to size. The car belongs to my son and no issues so far. The GTX is mine.

Accel Ceramic with 135deg bends.

Not familiar with the Flow Techs but the Summits are real similar to the Hooker Competitions I have on my 67 Coronet.

I may be late to the party…but I have a set of Summit coated headers on my GTX. They fit without any bashing.

Thanks, I noticed it was a lot more than the standard “1/2 turn” you usually see.

My buddy has a set of the “evolution” lifters that we are going to try out on his stroked 440. I will update when we get it running.

I was pretty easy on it, nothing like you are describing.

They were Lunati Micro-Trol lifters.

I was talking to Schneider Cams last week and they had the same cautionary tone when talking about FT cams. I almost pulled the trigger on one of their hyd rollers. What did Competition Components spec for you?

The reason I started this thread is to maybe get some answers. I have been researching this for 4 weeks since it happened, 2 guys on here asked the same question I asked Lunati…how could that much damage happen in 15min? I don’t believe this was your typical wiped cam/break-in issue. That lifter...

I lightly increased RPMs to around 2500 a few times, the fans cut on twice and dropped RPMs a bit but never below 2000.

After pricing a researching hyd rollers and all associated parts for the past few weeks that’s exactly what i decided to do today. Should have her up and running in a week or 2.

I’m running a Hughes FT cam and lifters in my GTX, a Comp FT cam and Hughes lifters in my Coronet, and prior to this issue a Lunati FT cam and Hughes lifters in this engine. The engine is fresh, only had 100miles when i decided to change heads and cam, wanted to bump up compression and go with...

Already tore it down, had minor scratches on the #1 crank journal, machine shop was able to polish out. Strangest thing was all the pistons were very tight on the wrist pin. Shop presssed out the pins and just cleaned up, everything was still in spec. Hope to put the shortblock together this...