Thread: rhoads lifters

Tweet

any body use rhoads lifters to get a little more bottom end/

Yep, used them and liked them. They are quite noisy like a solid lifter though. Crane makes a high-intensity lifter that isn't quite as radical as the Rhoads, you may want to research both of them.

Yup........ran them in my 23T, They worked great...... ran a big cam, with 3x2's..turbo 400 tranny......idled great, little noisey at idle......but the second you nailed it, they pumped right up and worked good. D

yep

yep also used them with a isky 292 505 and they worked great. I will say they were very noisy, I liked them but had many folks ask me what's wrong with my car.

i called comp cams last nite to get a recomendation for my motor and i asked about the 286 magnum he told me he dont like a single pattern cam on the street but if i wanted a lot of noise this is the cam for me. he recmended the extreme energy 274 . i told him i was using rhoads lifters and he said they were a bandaid fix for some one who over cams there motor im using them any way . i got a lot of feedback from this thread all positive. the next ? i have is if my cam recomends 2400 stall do i still need 2400 stall with rhoads lifters i dont want to over convert the motor either thanks

Originally posted by S19243H
i called comp cams last nite to get a recomendation for my motor and i asked about the 286 magnum he told me he dont like a single pattern cam on the street but if i wanted a lot of noise this is the cam for me. he recmended the extreme energy 274 . i told him i was using rhoads lifters and he said they were a bandaid fix for some one who over cams there motor im using them any way . i got a lot of feedback from this thread all positive. the next ? i have is if my cam recomends 2400 stall do i still need 2400 stall with rhoads lifters i dont want to over convert the motor either thanks

Yes, you still need to run the 2,400 stall.Rhoads lifters have been around for a while.They do seem to help the bottom end out a little bit.The tappets that go tick.

THANK YOU ERIC

HIGH VOLUME OR HIGH PRESSURE PUMP DENNY?

i remember reading about let down lifters in a david vizard book. was actually going to start a post on them asking whether anyone used them, but looks like theres no need! just how noisy are they though?
would mild let down lifters also work with a cam thats 'right' for a torquey engine, to provide even more torque at low rpm? or is there a point when the lifters just decrease the breathing by being too restrictive?
lobster