[DeTomaso] Will casidiam coated lifters resolve any solid lifter cam breakin issues?

[Ken Green]

Actually, it's a carbon vapor deposition product:
   
  http://www.casidiam.com/pdf/AnaPlasma.pdf
   
   
  While it may be overkill, the real question is if it is so good, that even used casidiam "coated" lifters are better than other lifters.  People talked a lot lately about solid cams getting destroyed in the first few minutes of running.  That's not cheap either.  If these things effectively do not wear, it would let someone try different cams without buy a new set of lifters for each cam, and make break-in a lot easier.  If they last on big cams with big springs at high RPM for a 400 mile race, seems like they would last forever in a high performance street motor enviroment.
   
  Ken

JDeRyke at aol.com wrote:
  
In a message dated 10/05/07 3:12:51 PM, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:    >I wonder if they are soooooooooo good that even a 1 race set like these are   a lot better than any other new lifters?    Casadiem is also known as DLC or 'diamond-like coating'.... in wear   resistence, and in price. Drag racers using blown modular motors that spin to 9000 rpms   use them, but IMHO utter overkill for streetable engines. FWIW- J DeRyke


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