A couple of things:

Terry knows what he's talking about. Period. His advice is invaluable to all of us, is right almost 99% percent of the time, and is delivered any which way he feels like dishing it out at the time. He's helped me and plenty of other CEG'ers out on many questions, and if he's questioning the oil starvation issue, that's fair.

I run it safe, fill her up to 6qt's, and have a DMD. I bought the windage oil pan, but after Terry mentioned it seems to cause foaming, I didn't install it.

I haven't had an engine failure yet, but I'm at 48K after 6 yrs of spirited driving. If and when it happens, believe you me, I'll get upgraded bearings for the 3L I'd drop in, along with some 3L pistons/valves and cunnigham rods.

As for now, where do we get those clevite 77 bearings??