72 360, cam/lifter failure, replacements?

I just spent a couple hours in an archaeological dig in the garage looking for car parts. There was a time I was planning to rebuild the 360 LA before I switched plans to swap a 5.9 magnum. All those parts mixed with Slant six turbo parts, and 5.7 hemi parts. I am doing an inventory and rediscovering parts I forgot about. Over the last 3 1/2 years I had kidney failure and another kidney transplant. My mind was occupied just trying to stay alive and keep my job and I forgot a lot of stuff. That combined with the great hemi car parts theft that happened before I became ill. I lost all my 5.7 hemi parts including computer and harness, the only thing they did not take was the 5.7 engine. Near as I can tell they did not touch any LA/Magnum parts, even shiny stuff like intake manifolds.

JunkYardHero, as for what type of setup, it was a bone stock 72 360 that I swapped a four barrel dual plane intake (Edelbrock RPM if memory serves) with a 600 cfm vac secondary carb. it ran really well. I ran it for over a year with that combo before the flat cam/lifter fiasco. I run an HEI distributor and it has worked flawlessly. Stock exhaust manifolds into a single pipe. I have headers for it that never made it on before this all happened. I was collecting parts for dual pipes but again did not get that far. This was my daily driver for part of Covid. Prior to swapping the intake manifold I drove it for a couple years for Wrecking yard trips, parts running, and camping trips.

JunkYardHero, I agree, time to do a tear down. Since, the magnum swap has fallen by the wayside and I have much of my health back it is time to start tearing into it. Tomorrow I will either start tearing it down or dig further into the garage car parts mess. Maybe both!

Mopar Head I scored a set of used EQ heads (I think they are the good ones) when I bought a used 5.9 magnum from a wrecking yard. Unfortunately the heads were the only good things on that engine. These may be a swap option. I do have a magnum edelbrock dual plane 4bbl intake I can use. This could save some money on valve seats and valve job.

Thank you for your advice and reading this JunkYardHero, Scody 21, BodyPerson, Mopar Head, Fishmens67, StreetSleeper, aBodyJoe, Mopar Official, and Ken Dog 170.

Mike