Who Makes A Good Roller Lifter?
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From: Pasco WA
Morels are generally accepted as being the best for extreme conditions, such as extended high RPMs, and are priced accordingly. For most high performance street cars, the new HD lifter from GM that they use in the Cadillac racing program should be more than enough, and they're about half the cost of Morels.
Melting Slicks
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Use the GM caddy high performance lifters - they are good to 8,000 RPM - cost about $234.00 - just put them in mine about 2 weeks ago - I understand they are now backordered till the end of February though.
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Morels are generally accepted as being the best for extreme conditions, such as extended high RPMs, and are priced accordingly. For most high performance street cars, the new HD lifter from GM that they use in the Cadillac racing program should be more than enough, and they're about half the cost of Morels.
Morels are about as good as it gets though.
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The Morels are suppose to address the issue of aftermarket cam smaller base circles which can result in a cam/lifter oiling problem because the lifter oil hole is further down the bore when a small base circle cam is used. Does any one know if the Caddy lifters address this issue??
How much are a set of Morels??
BC
How much are a set of Morels??
BC
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Morel's usually run $400-450.
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Scoggin Dickie will have more of the HD GM lifter's around Feb 15,They are on back order.They are priced I think at $217...............Paul
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From: Goose Creek SC
The Morels are suppose to address the issue of aftermarket cam smaller base circles which can result in a cam/lifter oiling problem because the lifter oil hole is further down the bore when a small base circle cam is used. Does any one know if the Caddy lifters address this issue??
Hammer
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From: American Canyon Lethal Injection
Le Mans Master
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From: American Canyon Lethal Injection
The Morels are suppose to address the issue of aftermarket cam smaller base circles which can result in a cam/lifter oiling problem because the lifter oil hole is further down the bore when a small base circle cam is used. Does any one know if the Caddy lifters address this issue??
How much are a set of Morels??
BC
How much are a set of Morels??
BC
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From: American Canyon Lethal Injection
Le Mans Master
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From: American Canyon Lethal Injection
Man that is just what I want. So there is no "sewing machine" noise at all? My set is on back order from SDPC.GM is making up a batch to send to them. They can't keep them in stock...
Former Vendor
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From: Lubbock Tx
Like mentioned above guys, we should have the Caddy race lifters back in stock in about a week!! We have a few back-orders to fill, but should receive plenty to fill those and then some! Give me a call if I can reserve you a set!