Haha, Oldman already knows about this..
My brother just got thru putting his 355 back together for his mud truck.
new bearings and the heads got a good working over.

Well after he got the motor back in the truck and could ever get it to pull hardly any vacuum at Idle or keep the valves adjusted..

Looky looky














Somebody want a good cam? its a multiduration/lift cam






Found out where the missing parts of the lifters and cam went..... To the oil pan.. Nice thick paste in the bottom.




Maybe he can get it running and stay running this time....

 

Hmmmm custom V-Tec for GM engines. I like your ideas

 

were the lifters put back in the exact spot they came out of?

 

haha i hooked that fool up with a cam and lifters now it runs like a top

 

new everything went back in.. Evil Z had a decent cam at the shop..

 

my gosh.. Ive actually ran mixed matched lifters with a solid lift cam before and no problems. how was the cam broke in? every time i broke in a cam i would set the idle to 2k and let it idle for 30 mins. ive broke in 8-9 cams like that for my dirt track cars

 

the cam and lifters came out of my buddys 355 that he ran for several months... then my brother put the cam and lifters in his mud truck for about 6 months. Pulled the engine to get new bearings and some stuff checked out. The cam and lifters still looked new.
Got the heads worked over with new springs and valves, put it all back together and after one day of breaking everything in and gettin the carb setup he noticed he couldnt keep the rockers lashed.
Pulled the lifters and found 2 collapsed and the bowl on the end of them
so we pulled the cam and found the damage.

 

a friend of mine just had a the same thing happen to his fresh 383, multiple shops have said it has to do with the way oil is being manufactured now that is causing that to happen, you need to do the break in and first couple of oil changes with expensive oil (some **** that is like $8.00/qt) it is becoming pretty common with fresh engines

 

We talked to some local guys that said use Rotella D desiel oil.. it has more Zinc and other stuff in it that some of this new oil doesnt.

 

i still say simple green would have fixed your problem