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Interesting reading this tread.

Sel you have what you have in your car, enjoy it and have fun. If it’s working that’s good!! You will find out if it’s trash. If you going to build a new engine believe me you want to buy the god stuff to a certain amount and find a good builder. It’s so important that the builder knows what he doing and knows what will work together. I have had some engine built for me over the year’s some cheap and some costly. The cheap one’s brake down pretty fast because the parts and HP aren’t made to be. I have also build costly engine were the engine builder didn’t have the knowledge and broke the engine.
The right parts, engine builder and the right goal for use and you will get a good engine.

If I want a high RPM engine I will go for solid lifter (Not talking about 6500 RPM’s), for your application I will go for hydraulic. You don’t need solid you don’t gain with it and it’s more work to.

You have what you have - but in my opinion, if (IF) it starts to brake down think of getting a new one.. don’t use to much money on it, have fun with it 500 hp is a lot of fun

Good summery you post Cowboy!