Lifter coating

[V M Kauffman]

Originally Posted by Jim Hanig

I have a friend that has some dlc coated lifters. They have around 100 laps on them and the coating is gone off the bottom.The cam looks ok and the bottom looks ok jut no more coating. Cast iron cam around 220 seat pressure. Anyone else had this happen?

There is a SAE study out there about how any lube with Molly attacks DLC coating it will make DLC FLAKE.