408 Stroker Build Suggestions

Going with adjustable rockers helps in a few ways. I wouldn’t limit my lift because I have new stamped steel OEM style rockers. Even more so with heads that flow well beyond a low .500 lift.

Your best bet is to take advantage of the heads air flowing capability and use a stronger true ratio rocker arm with a cam that has enough lift to get into the heads power making abilities.

The stamped rockers are not a true 1.5 ratio but a good rocker is! There are 1.6 ratios available for the LA engine.
Yeah, I was figuring I'd go with 1.6 since a lot of the cams I was looking at would be around .55 with a 1.6, and the flow numbers I've seen on the edelbrock heads have it flowing higher up until around .6 or higher. I'm understanding this correctly, right? @autoxcuda was recommending the .515 lift due to the budget aspect of my build so that I could use stock rockers, I believe? But, if I bought 1.6 ratio rockers, would they need to be adjustable with a hydralic flat tappet cam? Or one of the pushrods or the rockers would need to be adjustable to make it work? Pushrods and rocker arms are the pretty much the things I understand the least, being much more used to OHC engines.