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Old 03-21-2010, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
I wonder whether the additives work or not, too. I just use Brad Penn, which is really the same old hi-level zinc/phos oil that you could get decades ago along with a bottle of the old EOS. I haven't heard of too many lobe wipes any more. It seems like everyone has caught on and maybe the bad lifters have all died by now. Some of the smarter builders seemed to think there were some weak metal lifters that were the main culprits.
Don't forget the massive in-rush of inferior Chinese cam cores too... I also believe a lot of these failure can be attributed to poor materials and off-shore produced performance products.
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