[Michael C Henry]

What has changed to increase the life span of the roller lifters in FEs? I've heard stories of the 15,000 mile life span, remove and rebiuld or change out or else a mess. And the horror stories of the distributor gear conflict? I have a standard stroke Iron block sideoile with lemans rods with the ARP rod bolts. Allthough I don't use it I have rpm potential above 6,000 rpm. I have the Dove Canadian Super Cobra Jet heads and Tunnel Wedge intake manifold. Cam, heads, lifters intake, carbs, valves & spring all matched parts for high rpm range performance. I don't have the opertunity or nerve to keep my foot into it that long. My Cobra replica was built in Reno and competed in the Virginia City Hill Climb for several years. It is a different car with unusual equipment and inovasions that I haven't seen anywhere else. And the best thing its over the twenty five years old putting it outside emission testing. It's was a race car it can be driven on the street but I like to choose when and where. I know it doesn't do slow well. Stop and go are a killer something it doesn't like is climbing on trailers or climbing ramps in parking garages from stopped.