Recent content by RickP

A main reason(s) to restrict oil in a full roller application to control oil flow. Roller applicatons do not need the volume of oil of say a flat tappet application. In some applications without restrictors you can tend to flood the topend. It is much better to have oil available in the pan for...

[/qb] Many engine builders regard Crower lifters as being more durable than most on the market except for the $2,000+ Jesel lifters. [/QB] Wow, interesting you should say that about the Jesel. We were talking about that with the Porter last night. I mention in jest maybe I should jsut buy a...

Quick post as I'm off to the head porter shortly. Long story short Terry pretty much nailed some of the issues after I spent quite a bit of time on the phone today with Isky. Valve float is occuring and I need to do some tweaks to the oiling system, like take out the .100 restictors I have in...

This block is a Dart, tall deck aluminum. The pan rails are spread and the cam journals are raised, all allowing for a large stroke (4.125) to drop in easily. Bore sizes up to at least 4.20 are possible. The block is very light at about 96 lbs. It's a 10 second car in the 1/4 at 125+ on the...

The word Synthetic tripped the trigger of Jerry at Crower. He said no synthetic was good for a solid roller application. OK, lots of great thoughts here and I'll try to respond to all. I'd be open to run an alternative oil if there was data to back up it being a better product. I'll do some...

WOW, this site ROCKS. Thanks for all the input. Let me get some things done here at work and then I'll go through the responses in detail with some thoughts.

I run Scheaffers 20/50 blend in my nitrous small block Chevy motor. We make 750 to 800 HP on the juice. We also use it in our Extreme Street Pro Nitrous big block making over 1100 HP, 400 of which is via the nitrous.

Hi all, new to the board but have lurked for years. Really could use some insight on an issue I ran into today on teardown of my motor. Appreciate any insight or thoughts and sorry this is a bit long. I run an all aluminum 454 small block street/ strip motor in my 70 Camaro. It's a bit of a...