408 Stroker Build Suggestions

zsn0w said
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.

1st question, yes.
2nd question, yes.
3rd question, the rockers, they only come adjustable and can be used on any cam tappet style
4th question, the adjustable point is at the rocker. You don’t need to use an adjustable pushrod

autoxcuda said
You’ll gain a little lift. Not worth the $500 for comp roller rockers and another $125+ push rods. Factory iron adjustable rockers are 1.46. Rocker Arm Specialities can correct them, but that cost, initial cost, and shipping i’d guess at $300+ total.

I don’t think I’d bother with adj rockers and pushrods until you go to a bigger cam...OR just do all that now and spend money now.

I suggested stamped rockers worried that would take you $650 over budget. And suggested the smaller cam to go with that.

I must have missed the $650 budget and the posters future build NOT including ported heads later on.
My bad.....

Here I have to agree with autoxcuda.

Don’t mind AJ, he likes to bally-ho more garbage into run on sentences that rain on your parade just to chest pound his 367 as the ultimate engine while downing yours as a waste of time and garbage not worth ****.

Carry on AJ!