360 Block Lifter Ticking

There is issues with hydraulic lifters today from all selling them including Comp Cams . Many are doing the same thing as yours.

What we have been doing is buying up all the old mopar purple shaft cam kits for the lifters and use them in engines built here with the cam they choose.


We have put solid lifters in on some customer engines that came back with a tick. You can put Solids on a hydraulic cam. Make the valve lash .005. Power gain is unbelievable when getting rid of those lifters that never fully pump up. They only ever get rid of the tick and you never get any torque until RPMs build oil pressure. They act like the old rhodes lifters we use to run with large cams, Sponges until oil pressure pumps them up. With all the newer hydraulic lifters the power loss is extreme.

Solid roller cam with good roller rockers are what all of our personal motors get. Todds 408 got an old 557 solid purple shaft. Runs great.