Hydraulic roller lifter questions (LA 318)

Phreakish said
Ensures the pushrod ends and adjusters don't get smoked. Without pushrod oiling, it happens, especially with cheap roller rockers. I ran a set of alum prw 1.5 roller rockers in a 318 with solid pushrods and the ball cups showed significant wear vs my now hollow rods that still look like new.

If your rockers don't give a place for the oil to to from the pushrod, the amount of flow will be hampered quite a bit, and won't be an issue.

With a cam that small, it's unlikely the engine will be running revs where oil on the crank and rods will be a concern. Besides, the crank will have most of the sump whipped up anyway.. Any small 'extra' amount won't amount to anything measurable.

Might be a different story if you are planning to run a scraper or whiz bang oil pan - but that cam suggests it wouldn't be needed anyway?

More details about intended use and other parts of the build might clarify though.

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I'll be running a scraper and a fancy oil pan. I don't want to get too wild with the cam since it's going into a street driven car. Was kind of thinking that reducing parasitic losses as much as possible would make up (at least a little bit) some of the power given away by running a fairly mild cam. I might go up to a Comp 230/236 but probably no higher than that. Rest of the combo will be Speedmaster heads (hopefully reworked by IMM), 10-10.5 compression ratio, Performer RPM intake, and TTI stepped headers. Still trying to figure out what carb to put on it. It'll be going into either a 66 Barracuda with a 5-speed or a 64 Valiant with a 904. If the Valiant gets it, I'll get a converter to match the engine. Either car will get rear gears to match. Also, it needs to run on 91 octane since that's the best I can get where I live.