I thought he mentioned lash caps, but apparently not...my bad....sounds like he may be close enough with them.

Too many people get way to " nervous" about running lash caps. If you do proper maintenance, they are trouble free. I run them on the higher lapped cars ( 300+ passes a year) and anything with a little higher spring pressure. You definately notice the better stem tip wear on the valves that use them.

We run ther one piece locking caps on the blown alky motors, and they work excellent, but quite a different application. I'm way more concerned with putting properly fitting locks and retainers on , than I am with lash caps. There are a lot of poor fitting locks out there.