Steve Morris Engines Cammer build.

[jayb]

Looking at the pictures I think the cams are OK.  Notice the one cam has the lobes almost 180 degrees apart, and the other has them close together.  That is what SOHC cams look like.  His problem is the length of the valves, and what he perceives the problem is with the elephant foot adjuster scrubbing over the top of the valve.  He claims this is going to break parts.  It's not, at least in a drag application.  I've run those adjusters to 7800 many, many times.  The problem comes with sustained high RPM over 10-15 seconds, as Bill's videos show.  On the dyno, or at the drag strip, the elephant foot adjusters are not an issue.

[fryedaddy]

Steve gave me my parachute thats on my car,he is a good guy and is good at what he specializes in,BUT,thats proof that when it comes to building a good fe engine,you need to have a fe guy building it and doing the machine work.

[67xr7cat]

Is a shame and the video is hard to watch.  Looks like from what he says in the video he was handed all these parts and tried to make it work based on what he knows.  SOHC stuff is not anything close to what he normally does and he would have been better off not taking the job, but I for whatever reason he did.  I'd give him a A for effort, but he went down a Rabbit hole. Certainly did not do himself or the customer any favors. Hopefully the owner gets it sorted out by someone who knows how to make a 427 SOHC work.  Sometimes you are best to stick with what you know and do best.

[Fpcopo]

It’s a shame he didn’t get to finish it and see if what he did works.  Now someone else has to go through it and figure out what he was trying to do.  It’s going to cost the owner a lot more to have someone else take this to a conclusion.  Also now Steve Morris has been released from any workmanship guarantee issues.

[Hemi Joel]

It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion.  Jay, since you didn't /couldn't watch to the end, he got fired before he was done and the customer took the cammer back.  It's a sad thing when that happens, but at least he owned up to it, admitted he was to blame. Not too many would do that.