Recommendation for Forged Pistons and Connecting Rods

RustyRatRod said
You got hold of someone at Wiseco that didn't know their *** from a hole in the ground.
https://www.campbellenterprises.com/slant-six-6-performance-parts/wiseco-225-slant-6-six-pistons.php
And about the hydraulic comment I made. It's my personal opinion that the slant 6 was never designed as a hydraulic lifter engine. They do not even have oil galleries to pressurize the lifters. The lifters are fed oil "backwards" through the head, through the rocker shaft, through the rocker arms, through the pushrods and FINALLY to the lifters. It's simply a piss poor design IMO for a hydraulic lifter engine. Are you actually saying you're afraid of a valve adjustment once every couple of years? Because that's about the frequency even if that.

I'm just concerned that a fuel injection system that depends on consistency will produce drivability problems as the solid lifter system slowly comes out of adjustment. Am I wrong about this?

Doug Dutra was in the process of building an aluminum block engine for my project, which was lost in the great fire that destroyed his shop and left the engine a puddle of aluminum. He planned to tap an oil passage on the block for an external tube to the valve cover that would supply additional oil (eventually!) to the lifters. It was something he developed for hydraulic lifter engines built for racing.

--Walt Jackson