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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steven" data-source="post: 729366" data-attributes="member: 9605">This isn't my first motor. As we were building the motor, I didn't have any lifters except for a set of essentially brand new ones out of our race car that my dad talked me into using. The car ran fine at first. Then they collapsed, and it missed like a freight train. Put in new pushrods, but valves didn't get adjusted right. He took it upon himself to adjust them, apparently doing it wrong, and obviously grinding the lifter into the camshaft. I haven't told him that he was the one that killed it, but I sure as hell didn't. I've built a couple motors, nothing new to me. Helped on many. I may be young but I do know what I'm doing. I've more or less just run out of steam, considering I'd have to take it all back apart, after having it together and back, multiple times. It's been apart a couple times already, most of them are all crap my dads hollaring about doing. If I had been left alone, I'd have a running car, considering I wouldn't have adjusted the valves with collapsed lifters. But whatever. Neither here nor there. I'm pretty much done with it. It can sit there.</blockquote>