Here is the deal. I built this 468 last year for my Jeep Scrambler. From the get go it seemed to have low oil pressure, probably due to excessive bearing clearances. I stepped up to a 15-50wt oil and just let it warm up before i would get into it. It has a Lunati retro roller camshaft in it, Lunati retro roller lifters, Comp Cams High-Tech pushrods, and Comp Cams Magnum Roller Tipped rockers. The valvetrain had been a little noisy since the build, but I was assured that it was not a huge deal and was common with linked lifters.

Well fast forward to about a month ago and I install a new set of GM aluminum valve covers. I noticed that the valvetrain noise got way worse so I pull the covers and run the motor to see if I maybe had a few rockers out of adjustment and I noticed for about the first 3 or 4 minutes at idle I had no oil flow to the rockers. Then it started dribbling out, not what I am used to seeing with covers off of a Chevrolet. After seeing this I decided to remove the distributor and use my priming tool to see if I was missing something. When I removed the distributor cap I noticed a bunch of oil in the base of the distributor. After about a minute of the drill being at speed with the primer I am getting a pretty good flow, but still not what I am used to.

The only thing that is different from stock is a high volume/ high pressure pump, filter bypass removed, and the front two lifter galley plugs were drilled.

Sorry for the novel, but I really need some help on this. I can not afford to build it all over again.