As to the FTH lifters; some here say there are only a couple of lifter manufacturers around, and kindof think "they" are probably right.
As to the Hughes lifters; I bought them and the 1129 springs to go on their HE2330AL cam back in 2004. They have all been working well together ever since and that was about 60,000 miles ago.
As to their worth;Ima thinking that for me they are worth the upgrade, for two reasons,
1) I originally set the preload to about 1/4 turn, and that only lasted several thousand miles, after which they started ticking, So I reset the preload to 1/2 turn. This car, at that time, was a DD so when they began to tick a second time, I let them, because the engine was making more torque than ever. And the HD lifters have the circlip plunger retainer so they are designed to survive that, so I had no worries.
2) My engine has had the oiling mods done to it, so it has no problems with 7200, and so I test it every time I take it out.
Since the cost of upgrading to the HDs was minimal, it gave me this option, even tho my 230*cam probably powerpeaks at around 5400.
If you haven't heard your 360 screaming at 7000, you may never experience that horribly addicting sound; especially when the tach reads 7000 plus for two or three gears.
So yeah, to me those lifters were worth the extra coin.
Does your 262cam need them? probably not. But then I would get a rev-limiter. Because if you hit Neutral at say 5800 with your foot on the floor, that engine will hit 7000/8000 in less time than you can think what's going on, and react, to lift off. And if your engine does not have anti-pump-ups in it when the valve springs give up, well that could be catastrophic in several ways. So now those HD lifters would pay for themselves many many times over .
For me, being broke, the price difference in 2004 was less than a rev-limiter. And the first time I saw the tach-needle coming down past 8000 after a missed shift, with no apparent damage, I was one happy street-rodder; and of course , knowing what I then knew,lol, and having heard the Banshee Wail, 7200 became my new shift-rpm.
I know, I know, another long reply from AJ, complete with fluffed up rabbit-trails,unrelated info,and useless anecdotes; what can I say....You wanna hear about the Canaanite Giants, or GodAlmighty's description of the World we live in, as found in Job38?
BTW; that Comp 262 is a good sized street cam.With the 3.23sx 2.74=8.85 starter gear, it should pull real nice, If not, a 2800TC will wake her right up.
EDIT: Maybe I should mention that I tried to increase the oiling to my top end, in an effort to keep those valve springs cool. That top end is now spraying oil everywhere. I took advantage of that by drilling out the little pockets between each pair of lifters. Now some/most of that oil is draining into the cam tunnel. My hope was that some of it would flood the cam and then I would have no more flatted cams. And since 2004/5, I think I got it licked. With the HV pump, there seems to be lots of oil moving around. I also cut some drain-back channels in my Eddies at the back to improve drainage. I now have left and right heads. I had to go quite deep to make them half-decent effective.
