is oil killing our Cars

[Chevy454]

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He couldn't recall anyone ruining a flat tappet cam after break-in.

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We lost a 143 repro cam in our Y-Nova...thing had a funny sound and wouldn't smooth out, so the old man decided it needed a 1/4 mile tune up. He smoothed it right out, 'cause the engine locked up and he coasted back into town with a dead bullet! It was uggggggly...had to drive out a few lifters, jimmied up the oil pump shaft, chunks of cam/lifter everywhere inside. That cam was correctly broken in on the dyno, and ran flawlessly for 2 years, and pushed our Y-Camaro to mid-12s right before being put into the Nova...whether the manufacturers wanna admit it or not, the oil and cam blanks share the blame.