who is running MRL (BAM) Lifters without lifter bore sleeves
I'll be reading the book as well, you can bank on it. So you guys know: My engine is a 408 cu. in. MRL designed. Mike had said he had built many of them and they all perform awesome, I was in at that point. We talked about what kind of engine I wanted. I told him that I wanted it to be solid roller, run on pump gas, be respectable at the drag strip and at the same time be able to drive it on the street. Mike said it would be 11.1 to 1 compression about 525HP and be the same 525 ft pounds of torque. So I started buying the components from Mike and he shipped them to me. I had the block a 1978 360 standard bore that Ridge Reamers in Arvada, CO prepped 30 over for me. The aluminum heads have MRL's stage 3 port and polish done, 2.08 intake valves, 160 ex. valves. 1.6 Hughes rockers & shafts. The air gap intake was port matched. Lunati VooDoo solid roller cam, MRL Pro Plus lifters (Bam). Fitech EFI, 3" X pipe exhaust. So....For it to run so great and then **** the bed after less than an hour of run time was pretty darn upsetting. Not to mention the money that was wasted, all because of Oiling, that I was told I did not have to worry about it. If Mike had said "make sure you bush the lifter bores", I would have done so. He told me his lifters were "retro fit" and were drop in and no oil mods were needed. So on I went assembling this badass 408 with his words of wisdom. Well, he was wrong, the lifters lose oil pressure badly, and will burn up your shafts and rockers. I was freaking out as it was running with 20 psi of oil pressure, then disaster. Yes, I will be reading this book. Yes, I will be bushing the lifter bores, Yes, I will be doing some oiling mods. I WILL win, I just don't know when.
Here's my cam card, if you are interested.
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I'll be reading the book as well, you can bank on it. So you guys know: My engine is a 408 cu. in. MRL designed. Mike had said he had built many of them and they all perform awesome, I was in at that point. We talked about what kind of engine I wanted. I told him that I wanted it to be solid roller, run on pump gas, be respectable at the drag strip and at the same time be able to drive it on the street. Mike said it would be 11.1 to 1 compression about 525HP and be the same 525 ft pounds of torque. So I started buying the components from Mike and he shipped them to me. I had the block a 1978 360 standard bore that Ridge Reamers in Arvada, CO prepped 30 over for me. The aluminum heads have MRL's stage 3 port and polish done, 2.08 intake valves, 160 ex. valves. 1.6 Hughes rockers & shafts. The air gap intake was port matched. Lunati VooDoo solid roller cam, MRL Pro Plus lifters (Bam). Fitech EFI, 3" X pipe exhaust. So....For it to run so great and then **** the bed after less than an hour of run time was pretty darn upsetting. Not to mention the money that was wasted, all because of Oiling, that I was told I did not have to worry about it. If Mike had said "make sure you bush the lifter bores", I would have done so. He told me his lifters were "retro fit" and were drop in and no oil mods were needed. So on I went assembling this badass 408 with his words of wisdom. Well, he was wrong, the lifters lose oil pressure badly, and will burn up your shafts and rockers. I was freaking out as it was running with 20 psi of oil pressure, then disaster. Yes, I will be reading this book. Yes, I will be bushing the lifter bores, Yes, I will be doing some oiling mods. I WILL win, I just don't know when.
Here's my cam card, if you are interested.
