Quote: Crane is making a flat tapered cam. My question is can I use their lifters with an original used A12 cam? The other question is can I use the original lifters even if they are not back on the same lobe? The person who first took mine apart saved everything but did not number the lifters.
John, after you mentioned this to me previously I looked into it: Crane is not making any cams w/ the special low-taper design like was used w/ the A12 cams. They have developed some new "flat-face" hydraulic profiles, but they still use the same taper as what's normal for other hydraulic these days.
Re: the possibility of re-using the original low-taper lifters for your original cam on the wrong lobes... Well, I wouldn't chance it, to be blunt. You can only break in the cam / lifter interface once.
