Keith
I had some problems with bronze gears and finally gave up and went back to a non-roller solid lifter cam (with a steel gear)...just about the same lift as you're running on both of my solid roller and non-roller cams.
I thought you couldn't put anything but a bronze gear in one of these Shelby FEs? Since I still have a perfectly good solid roller cam sitting on the shelf...PLEASE tell me there's a way. Do you have to do something to the cam?
Everything I heard points to the Jesels being well worth the price of admission. (Best cutting tool I've ever seen is what a "normal" solid roller lifter that's lost it's tiny assed needle bearing will do to a cam!) But I wasn't going to spend the money given the problem with the doggone bronze gears.
I always wondered if long cruises/street driving (and the accompanying low rpms with stop and go) might be tougher on them versus racing with them, and yet hydraulic cams with them never seem to have a problem.
Another issue was that the high pressure
oil pump running off that same piece of relatively soft material was an issue and that a dry sump would be necessary to make it live on the street, but I see you're running a wet sump.
Thanks for any info. I wouldn't mind going back to the roller setup in the future if there's a way to resolve that issue.