Solid roller lifter failure

[Hotfingrs]

Here's my 2c's on this subject... CompCams is pure crap. I ruined 2 engines with their lifters. Neither engine lasted 4 months. First engine broke rollers off one lifter and several others had loose or no bearings. Second engine had 2 broken lifters and 6 with no bearings. My spring pressures are 205 closed and 610 open. Cam is 712 lift and 310 duration. This is my small block chevy engine. Routinely shifting at 7500 or more. This is also a solid roller cam.

After talking to CC they told me with my spring pressure, their lifters should last 800 miles and their spring should last 1000 miles. You can imagine what I told them they could do with their lifters. So I spent the winter call different companies and talking about their lifters. All the top fuel and funny car guys are running Crower lifters. When I called Crower, the first thing they asked was if I was happy with the spring pressures I was running. I told them I was. They said keep using them, you'll never have a problem with our lifters, and you won't have to rebuild them like other companies. I bought a set of their lifters with the HPPO option, and they were in my engine for 5 years before I built my new engine last winter. They showed no signs of wear.

Needless-to-say Crower is also in my new engine. BTW I was running the 875 Ford lifters in that old engine. I can't say enough about Crower, and I always tell my engine builder...if you put anything CompCams in my engine, you better sell it to someone else.