i have a mild 440 with a full crane valvetrain. 260 h cam, matching valve springs and lifters.

i reved it to high during a burnout (6000+rpm) and when i let off to slow down to reasonable speeds i noticed a LOT of tapping/cliking noise,sounded like valvetrain so i shut it down. restarted after a few seconds and looked at oil preshure and it was fine 25 at idle (hot) still makeing noise so i reved it to a continuious 3000 rpm and the noise went away. i havent heard any noise sense then and its runnig great. just wondering what happend and if i should worry.

time for a rev limiter set to 5000 rpm

pumped the lifters dry.....

think it would hurt anything

Are you sucking your oil pan dry momentarily at the high RPM?? Tell us about your pan, pick up and pump??

What lifters?You might have floated them.I doubt very much you can suck a pan dry during a burnout unless you smoked them for 5 minutes.I hit 6800 all the time with my 440 8Qt pan hi vol hi press pump.It runs all the way thru the 1/4 and never runs low on oil.I do run solids thats why it spins that high and even higher.Rocky

stock c body oil pan. 5 second burnout just matting it at 25 mph the letting off around 50 mph. high volume melling pump. the oil presure stayed perfect the hole time. 70 psi @ 3500

Get a bigger pan, deeper, MAS sells one just like milodon 7qt for 100 bucs give or take with pick-up...stock pan probably aint gona cut it...needs more oil with that set-up...ask me how I know....or [I know I will be crucified for this,but it works] add a qt over when at the track,we used to do this and never had a problem...

C bodies need the divot in the pan for idler clearance, something to keep in mind. Most of us just put 6 qt's in the stock pan.
But, you didn't mean to rev it that hard, and based on your cam choice, probably don't plan on doing it again. No need to to do anything if the engine sounds/runs fine now, just keep a better eye on the tach. When you let off the brake doing a burnout the rpms can really jump depending on how hard you were on the binders. You often need to feather the throttle to keep the rpm where you want it