Lifters
Ive always liked Rhoads lifters. Kim
These were what I was thinking of when I saw some lifters listed as"performance" ones.
I thought you wouldn't want those on a mild cam, just with a wild cam. I remember reading what was so special about those but it's been a while. I haven't heard anything about them in years. I didn't think they were still available. Are the "performance" lifters from say Melling, for instance, the same idea as whatever makes Rhoads ones so special?
In asking about them, it's been a few years since I have done a cam and lifter job on a flat tappet cam. Last one was a total overhaul on a 4.0 jeep. And it came out fine.
Back then I didn't hear nearly as much about a new cam going flat so soon after install, as I do now a days. It's been such a hot topic since, that I'm a little leery of that happening. I don't want it to happen to either the /6 (solid lifters) I have on my engine stand or the 318 that is only coming apart far enough to put this cam I have for it, in.
Add in all this crap coming from China, and yeah things are a mess these days.
I have heard there are only 2-3 companies that make lifters and box them up for whatever company wants to sell them under "their" brand. True?.
I tend to try to find NOS parts that have been on the shelf for umpteen years to avoid buying Chinese crap.
