Hylift Johnson Lifters Quality Decreasing?

Bewy said
According to Cam King [ Mike Jones ], owner of the SpeedTalk forum, there is only one company making FT lifters in the US.....& they are very expensive [ how much did you pay ?].

I would not use the above lifters for a number of reasons. No lifter should have marks in the face that contacts the lobe. Some lifters have more chamfer than others. If these defects are an example of the 'quality control' that are easy to see, how good is the rest of the QC that is NOT easy to see: radius, lifter hardness, internal clearances etc.

Get some 25+ yr old lifters & get them re-faced for trouble free operation.

Those lifters are ground using CBN or similar. That’s exactly what they SHOULD look like.

There is nothing wrong with them. The OP is making a mountain out of a spec.

BTW, go out and put 5K miles on them and pull them out. Look at them under a magnifying glass or microscope. You will still see those lines.