Solid roller lifter failure

[blykins]

Absolutely not. I don't look at it that way.

When I build an engine, I don't want the customer to have horrible issues with it, even if it's not my fault.

Even if I told the customer that I had washed my hands after assembly and whatever happens during the break-in is their baby, it would be 1. a horrible attitude to have as a builder and 2. very bad to see the customer have to disasseble the entire engine, clean, replace parts, and rebuild because of some stupid flat tappet piece of junk.

I don't know who built your engine, but if I even have a valve cover leak, I worry about it. Also, a lot of customers are not engine savvy, and I wouldn't put it past some people to slander your name all over the earth because they didn't break a cam in correctly.

Honestly, with all the crap that you have to go through to get a cam to break-in, I don't see the worth of running them at all. All the different additives...break-in oils, break-in springs, low ratio rocker arms, running at 30 minutes at rpm, etc. It's all bogus junk.

And the thing is, NO ONE is above wiping the lobes off of a cam. Keith Craft has done it, Barry Rabotnick has done it, you can't even get away from it by having the cam company out west break-in your cams on a machine. It's just not worth the hassle.