I'm too broke *** to be buying multiple sets of rockers. Thus why I went to the PRW to begin with. I know they are not the best but seen and read others using them with zero issues. I'm open to donations tho lol
I got that... the Hughes set was not cheap. I bought these AL needle types pretty cheap to see what would happen.. .and it happened LOL.
FWIW..... I've pulled the needle bearing assemblies out and have bought some stock bushing material to cut and to press into the rockers to try a fix on my PQ rockers. I bought some stock cast bushings.... .875"ID x 1.125"ODx 3.5" long each. I'll saw these down and straighten the ends and press them into the rockers. The bushing clearance is snug on some new MP rocker shafts, and the resulting bushing length will be about 2/3 of the total width of the rockers. I think it will carry the load well enough (I did some numbers on the pressures), and the contact forces will be way less than those wide-spread and narrow needles. So this is a trial but I figure I have some way to try to reuse these rockers and get rid of the needle bearing assemblies.
Not sure what to recommend to you. You have high lift and pretty high lift rates, and it is all going to be hard on the rockers and shafts. I don't think there is anything cheap that you are going to find to work with this setup. It might be time to think about backing off on the cam and getting by with something like the 273 rockers for a while, 'til you get some $$ saved up to take another whack at this.