[lippy]

My engine is an all aluminum FE with a solid roller cam. I set my valve lash to 0.025" hot per Brent's recommendation, and this corresponds to cold lash of 0.014" cold.

I understand why you wouldn't want lash too tight (hanging the valves open), but why wouldn't you want to set lash as close to zero as possible under the minimum clearance condition? In other words, for my build, if I were to set lash at, say 0.003" cold (allowing for a few thousandths extra), it would give me roughly 0.014" hot.

Wouldn't this give more power and less wear?