"Did your cam go flat or did the lifters wear away ?? Most likely your lifters are waisted. This is because you can not use any lifter but a SCAT anymore because all the cam blanks are harder now. Especially the SCAT blanks. They should have told you that normal lifters would be destroyed by their cam. Unless you bought it from someone else.
HERES THE DEAL , ALL NEW CAM BLANKS ARE HARDER THAN BEFORE.
USE ONLY THE NEW SCAT LIFTERS WITH THESE NEW CAM BLANKS. NO LONGER CAN BRAZILLIAN,GERMAN OR ANY LIFTER OTHER THAN A SCAT BE USED IN A VW MOTOR.
Yes I`m sure there are plenty of people who are going to say "but", "but".
The fact is that ALL new cam blanks are harder, including Engle, Eagle,WEB,Scat and anyone else using a CWC cam blank (ES-12,EP-12 or whatever).
The new SCAT lifters are also harder. All the older lifters ( Mahle, Premium,riosulense, Brazillian, the "made in western Germany", Johnson, Eaton, are all too soft to use with these new cam blanks.
If you use these lifters with a new cam you are almost garrenteed to have 8 destroyed lifters. It all depends on spring tension amung other things.
CB, WEB and others use repackaged SCAT lifters. If you are not sure you are getting Scat lifters with with your new cam then order them seperately.
I don`t want to sound like I'm a SCAT salesman. Its just that because of all the "flat cam " rumors a few years ago certain people took it apon themselves to FIX a problem that did not exsist!! The problem a VERY FEW people had a few years back was that the OIL we use was changed. The EPA took all the metals out to protect catalitic converters and this left us with oil that had little high pressure protection. Cam and lifter contact points need high pressure lubricating protection from compounds like Zinc and Phosphorous. Deisel oils still have these compounds since they don`t use CATs. Shell Rotella is one that works great.
The point is that ALL the new cam blanks are harder now because some in the VW industry decided that harder cams would stop the "flat cam" prob. It didn`t. But now we are all stuck with hard cams that only work with SCAT lifters. Again to use ANY other lifter is to really press your luck.
I have never had a cam go flat in all the years I`ve been building motors. But a year ago I had two motors literally grind up all 8 lifters. Each motor lasted about 30 minutes. Valve lash was huge after a few minutes of running and the filter was full of filings. Apon disasembly the motors had a cam that had all 4 lobes but they were smeared with lifter metal. Half of the lifters on the other hand had no heads!! They looked like they were taken to a grinder!! I have been forced to use SCAT lifters since then with the Engle cams I`ve always used. No more probs. I`ve built many motors using this combo now and all is well. I don`t use the Lubalobes, they are a waste of money to me. The standard SCAT,CB or WEB lifter work fine. No goofy finish ,no special 9 step breakin proccess. Just smear them with cam lube and pop then in. Dual springs and all. I run my motors for a couple minutes to look for leaks and to time it and then take it down the road and put it under a load. That means race it around None of this baby your motor for the first 500 miles so it burns oil crap.
Anyway. New cam,CB,WEB,Scat lifters,= no probs.
Use Shell Rotella T 15-40 or Kendall 20-50.
Thats whats worked for me.
Oh and by the way yes there are million dollar lifters that are available that can work also but I`m not a millionaire....are U
But Kendall has been proven to be great oil by racers over the years. Dean Lowery would use nothing but Kendall. And the Top fuel guys used it forever.