Hi guys,
So I got the car back together over the weekend and with the new LS7 lifters its running great.
We decided to look a bit closer at the lifters and buckets from ebay and found that when the lifters are in the bucket, they can pretty much rotate freely around because the buckets are not putting any sort of pressure on the lifter at all. Its almost like the buckets are stretched/warped out of shape!
Looking at the damage to the lifters again, this actually makes alot of sense, the were probably spinning around like a washing machine on the cam
I guess the take away from this expensive experience is if you are going to buy lifters and buckets when doing a cam swap, it would be wise to get genuine or a good quality aftermarket option!!
Ill post some videos of it soon once its tuned