Building a new motor, Best Piston Rings and Lifters? Options

[RoadGlue]

Hey all,

Building a fairly mild 66 mm x 96 mm short stroke motor (heads opened up a bit, mild cam). Just looking for recommendations for rings unless whatever AA P&Cs come with are considered good enough. Also looking for good lifter recommendations too. Not going hydraulic.

Thanks!

Randy

['73-914kid]

The lifters will depend a lot on who you go to for your cam, and whether it is a regrind, or cut from a fresh blank. My experience with lifters is only related to having cams re-ground. If that is the direction you plan on going, let me know and I'll tell my story, but its awfully long, and not relevant or interesting if you're going the webcam route. Haha (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[RoadGlue]

The lifters will depend a lot on who you go to for your cam, and whether it is a regrind, or cut from a fresh blank. My experience with lifters is only related to having cams re-ground. If that is the direction you plan on going, let me know and I'll tell my story, but its awfully long, and not relevant or interesting if you're going the webcam route. Haha (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Elgin Cams happens to be here in my town. They do have a reground cam that my machinist now has. It's been completely gone through. I'll bite. What's the difference between a reground cam and one made from a blank? Both Elgin and my machinist seem to think it's okay.

Thanks,

Randy

[914Mike]

Elgin Cams happens to be here in my town. They do have a reground cam that my machinist now has. It's been completely gone through. I'll bite. What's the difference between a reground cam and one made from a blank? Both Elgin and my machinist seem to think it's okay.

Thanks,

Randy

Hey Randy, while you're there could you ask about my cam and one lifter that has been there for over a year?

(Another long story, sorry.)

I sent a cam to Rich for regrind along with 8 lifters. When I got the cam back it did not look anything like the last one that they had done for me. (This was right about the time they were moving north.)

The parkerizing was very thin, and the original wear pattern was visible through it, so I asked Rich to send it back for evaluation. (It looked to me like it was just a stock cam that had had the grooves ground out.)

About the same time I finally opened the package of lifters and discovered that one of them had a drop of weld splatter stuck on the side of it, so both items are somewhere up there, in limbo, I guess. I did ask Rich about it a month or so ago, but haven't heard back yet. The worst part is, I mentioned the cam to my machinist when I dropped off my crank and rods, so he knows he does not have to finish them till Elgin gets my cam back to me, so he's taking his time too...