Mechanical Roller Lifters

Rmoore said
Thank you Andy. For the advice given. The reason i went with the trick flow intake cause trick flow gave great reviews. So your saying i would be much better suited with the Indy Intake?? Sir i totally respect everything you tell me. I am definitely not a know it all. And i did just order your book off Amazon. My question now is. If i buy the indy intake. Will i have to send it to Wilson or someone to port the intake to get it to work. Or can i just clean it up.

The Trick Flow intake is a great intake for standard port heads. It is probably the very best intake available for standard port heads. You have MW port heads if you have the 270 heads. Have you looked at your parts? Put a MW intake gasket on your 270 heads and then put it on your intake. You'll see that the gasket opening is much larger than the opening in your intake manifold. I don't really know much about what you are trying to do but on a serious 270 head engine (700+ hp) the Trick Flow intake would kill at least 50 hp if not more. I don't know if that matters to you or not since I don't know what you're trying to do but it just doesn't make sense to me that you're worried about high dollar roller lifters when you have a TF intake on 270 heads.

Like I said above, we just finished a 505 with TF270 heads. It has a Comp street roller cam with Comp lifters and it made 700 hp on pump gas. If I put a Trick Flow intake on that engine and then spent another $1000 on Isky lifters the engine would make less power. If a Comp street roller cam can make 700 hp then why beat up the valve train with something more aggressive? If the Comp lifters work just fine on a Comp street roller lobe then why pay double for something else? Match the lifter to the lobe and the spring. That is all you need to do.

You've made a big investment with the 270 heads. For your engine to be successful you need to make sure that the cam, carb, intake, and headers all match the 270 heads. When you build an engine with matching parts then it really works. If the parts don't match then it won't work very well.