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Ziggy
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Ceramic Lifters

11/10/2008 1:44 PM

A few years ago Sckobeck Racing offered Ceramic lifters for many applications. they were stopped by uncle sam,for one reason or another. hat was a stupid thing to do they were a excellent longlasting product . with tremindious poteicial.

Has anyone heard why, or if anyone else has came up with a simular product. of equal quality..
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11/10/2008 3:44 PM

Are you talking about Schubeck? I think they were outlawed for drag racing (??) but that wouldn't have been Uncle Sam. Far as I know, they gave a competitive advantage but were likely to shatter.

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11/10/2008 10:56 PM

I don't know about ceramic lifters, but I do know that Norton made experimental ceramic valves for Ferrari formula one racing engines. The story I heard was that the valves worked great on the dyno, and produced huge horsepower, but broke under racing conditions. They subsequently removed the heads from the valves and used the stems as pushrods for OHV engines where they performed okay, but were very expensive.
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Re: Ceramic Lifters

11/11/2008 2:56 AM

Hello Ziggy, googled Shuebeck ceramic lifters, here is the first thread I found on it.

http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=101014&view=next&sid=79fa798c1e5db053986b371801452044

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