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Old 10-21-2019, 03:59 PM
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Thanks Ken, I knew something like that happened.


Dragncar- I've seen at least 2 instances of the Morels go over 100k miles on medium-type performance builds, and I have that Olds that has over 30k on it with Morels. (which uses Pontiac type lifters).

I know of a couple folks around here that run the Morels, not Pontiacs, but they I know have driven on them for a number of years, not sure of the total miles, but certainly the two that come to mind drive them a lot, and must be at least 30-50k miles. I will ask when I get a chance exactly how many miles.

As stated previously, you can't go by new cars as an example, due to the level of performance they're built from the factory, and the cam profiles they uses, not an apples-to-apples thing.

I will have somewhat of an example by next summer, I plan on driving my car everywhere, so once it's shaken out, I will do weekend and week long trips with it. I will give feedback then.

Solid roller is a different story, I've had 2 high mile examples, one was 225k+, the other @90k miles, neither had issues. The 225k one I did a top end freshen, valve job, seals etc, and it pitched a rod at 225K. One was Lunati solid roller and the other Crower HIPPOs.

If I have trouble with this set of Morels I'm installing this week, I will go back to solid rollers.

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