[Jay S]

Nitriding lifters the thin layer of the nitriding will just flake off.

When a cam is nitrided and used with crappy soft metal lifters like what is being sold now by a lot of companies the cam and lifter hardness get’s too close together and the nitrided cam will surface will flake. Go a step put further with really really low hardness lifter, with the hardness of the lifter and cam almost being the same or softer, then the cam nitriding will flake, and will eat the lifter. (See Paul’s picture).

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