"Old School" Stocker Cams

[Ralph A Powell]

Originally Posted by Greg Reimer 7376

Maybe, that could explain why so many small block Chevy cams went flat all through the '70s and 80's. It's also a possibility that a cam vendor had problems with quality control that caused a lot of problems. Seems to me that some Ford engines in the late '50's and early '60's had a bunch of issues like that, too.

It was the Ford Y-Block (272 292 312s) they had a nail head (mushroom) style solid lifter.