Gotta build ANOTHER engine.

an acquaintance of mine, was assembling a gen2 Hemi. He was trying to do it fast and not really thinking about what he was doing. The pistons are extensively domed with huge valve notches, and the valves are not arranged in a line like a usual Mopar wedge. He managed to put several pistons in backwards, just bolted on the heads and when he tried to throw the rocker assemblies on he bent some brand new valves. You really need to pay attention to details when building an engine, especially expensive, high performance ones.

I was initially getting p-v contact with my build but that was due to the lifters being fully pumped up and the pushrods being slightly too long, once I got shorter pushrods I could assemble the rockers and slowly rotate the engine so the spring pressure would bleed-down the lifters.

Wouldn't spinning the oil pump pump the lifters back up? I've also been searching around and i've seen a couple people mention they ran cams slightly bigger than mine on a stock Magnum short block with no P-V clearance issues.

I guess if I really want to get this right I gotta hit the junkyard and grab 2 more lifters to convert into solid testers... but then i'll need shorter pushrods too to take out the .090" or so of preload...?