[67Lemons]

In the old days it was always wise to stick with the same manufacturer for the cam & lifters. In recent years though because of quality concerns, overseas manufacturing & repeated failures the common accepted practice is to purchase a US made lifter like the Johnson’s & then pair it with the cam of your choosing. Makes sense to me since the common logic is that all HFT or SFT cams use the same cam blanks from the same supplier. Also commonly it is mentioned that most if not all of these cams are from the same grinder so the name on the box doesn’t matter, aka the same quality no matter who.

All this makes sense to me because I’m actually in the parts business as a manufacturer rep for automotive & commercial vehicle parts. Where this goes a little sideways for me is that there is also a group of folks on this board & others who say go with Crower since they have a the cam saver lifters & there are very few if any failures typically reported. Two points on this logic is that are their lifters made in the US, are there cams the same as say the Melling version?

Maybe Crower grinds their own cams? Possible but not sure, maybe they only accept a certain percentage of cams from the original grinder, like the top 10% or something? We do know guys like Bullet, Comp Cams, etc grind their own but now everyone is mostly doing HR. Who knows but all this can be confusing so I’m throwing it out there for discussion.