Flat tappet lifter failure

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

The AHFS and the "political influence" factoring is what determines so much of competitiveness for any combination. So why not do something to truly reduce the cost, like a limit on valve spring pressure? There is more technical challenge and expertise with more limits than with fewer.

The System has loopholes that need to be addressed.
This will not be popular but Pulling a combination Advertised HP backwards is not performance based. *** This might be correct for a few combinations but look at the HP on some of the popular cars now.
There goes my Christmas cards …