Getting Close to Start Up-What else can I Screw Up?

[Chaplin]

Originally Posted by big-boss

Chaplin, your 2300+posts show that you are realy dialed into discussion and I appriciate your kind thoughts. You must be right. Why are we using this forum to discuss opinions. We should all do just what we are told and shut up! Right?
Just so you know, this is my 2nd 427 in my fifth Cobra the last being a HR stroker big dollar motor in a Butler. I did not do any of this stuff to that motor back in 1990 and I put 12,000 miles on it only problem ever was a dove rocker failure.
When I started this project I wanted a high winding motor -sort of like a Lamborghini V-12. (I really know that is silly) plus I wanted to keep the price under 4000. So it is all just one big compromise anyway. It will be under 4K not sure about the rev part yet- Hopefully next month.

Boss-
My post count is utterly unrelated to the reasons you need to remove your inner springs or whether that is in fact the correct break-in procedure, but thanks for noticing. Nevertheless your post proves the point. You said: “I did not do any of this stuff to that motor back in 1990 and I put 12,000 miles on it only problem ever was a dove rocker failure.”

This is not 1990, this is 2008. A lot has changed in the last 18 years, most importantly the removal of zinc from oil. Therefore, while you may not have needed to do these things in 1990, you do need to do them in 2008, or else seriously risk wiping a cam lobe during break-in. It has become, as Blykins correctly points out, a "this is how you need to do it, no questions asked" type of issue.

Pat-