[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by turbo69bird

I’m probably gonna. Need to knock on some wood here but I’ve had tons of solid flat tappers and hydraulics in a lot of different engines. Even turbo engines with high spring pressures. Many of these engines sat for long durations over winters with Nothing special on start up no pre prime anything. I’ve never wiped out a lobe on a cam and I started in 1987. Idk if I’m doing something right or everyone else is doing something wrong

I don’t even run special oils. I do throw some zddp in on occasion but I buy cheaper Napa brand oils. Nothing super special of it’s not that I use rottella that I have here from my diesel or occasionally some aeroshell from
My airplane.
I Used to put well over 100 track passes a year on my engjnes usually in the 140 passes a year range
s. Running multiple classes a weekend. For a long time I launched that car at 6400 rpms. I’ve burned pistons , I’ve broken driveline parts , banana’d rears even split a cylinder once , never wiped a lobe.

Of course my brand new RAIV rebuild will be the one now that I said that. But it’s always boggled my mind why so many had this issue .because I don’t do anything special. None of my buddies I race with have wiped a love either w other makes.
Maybe the winter here cryos our cams. iDK.
I have pretty much every cam
I ever raced still here in a box somewhere all are usable still. I usually go new because I want to try something but not because they are failing

I'm in the same boat. Just haven't seen the failures at all that people post about. My thought is that now 30+ years later as the internet got more popular you are now reading about it but in reality not much has changed since before that time, and everyone is always quick to point out issues on the internet but rarely ever does anyone praise success stories. And God help you if you do, you are quickly dismissed by the negative crowd. My guess is there are more success stories than failure, you just don't hear about them on the internet because we are too busy enjoying our cars.