Quick question......
Which cam grinder makes their own HFT lifters?
None of them.
How many USA lifter manufacturers are there of Mopar HFT lifters?
To my knowledge.....2
How many of those are of the “affordable” variety?
Imo.....1
There’s Hylift Johnson(affordable), and these:
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Anything else you buy is imported.
Not all Hylift Johnson’s are the same.
There could be some minute differences based on customer requirements(the customer being the cam companies).
If you want them built the way the manufacturer prefers...... buy the “Hylift Johnson” branded lifters.
I have a set of Lunati Micro Trol lifters I bought in the mid-90’s.
I took one apart the other day to see what it had for internal valving....... so I could see if I could tell who made it.
When I bought those there were 3 USA manufacturers/suppliers of Mopar lifters. Hylift Johnson, Eaton, Stanadyne.
They all looked different inside.
My 90’s vintage Micro Trols are Eaton lifters.
In the early/mid-2000’s Eaton got out of the flat lifter business and sold the assets and customer list to Stanadyne.
Somewhere around 10 years or so ago they decided they wanted to get back into the FT lifter business....... so they bought out Morestana, a Mexican lifter manufacturer.
So, the current offering from Eaton is not the exact same product they were selling before they got out of the business.
Stanadyne got sold to an investment group, who decided they didn’t want the lifter manufacturing part of the company and sold it off.
For the most part....... there is one manufacturer left in the USA that still makes “affordable” lifters.
