Well the parts are in, heads are at the machine shop getting new valve guides and trued .010. You'll never guess what i found when i pulled the motor apart. my dads motor had sat all winter last year and when we had started it up in the spring after all the snow melted it had a ticking in the valve train i had pulled off all the valve covers and checked the rocker arms whiched checked out ok but lead me to believe it was a failed lifter. well as of yesterday i started pulling out the lifters out of the bores and found 4 bad lifters and 4 bad cam lobes it ate away at itself so we now have $130.00 of scrap but investagating what went wrong and come to find out my dad had put Mobil one 10W30 synthetic in it which made the lifters not rotate cause its to slipery. while reading the new cam instructions its not safe to put synthetic in until after 5000 miles and dad had about 500 to 1000 miles on his. but dads new parts he got are,
Crane enegizer cam 1500 - 5500rpm 272Dur 216@.050 110deg lob sep 454/454 lift
crane cam enegizer roller rockers 1.5 ratio
shift light & Tach
MSD hei module with rev limiter
Well second times a charm and after making dad read the cam instructions and warnings and break in, he now knows and understands and won't be running synthetic till after 5000 miles