Recent content by Iron Mike

Your right Pete, those are cast iron not hollow; my advice is for hollow non scalloped lifters...... eyesight is not so good anymore.... the weight of those would be my only concern......I.M.

Those lifters are for the early mushroom tip valves used with split guides; I've never used them with 49-53 valves upon the advice of others. There is concern of the smaller contact area of the late valves accelerating wear or punching through the early lifters. I have disassembled engines that...

Willie, Not sure I can add more than you know. I also own the very same manifold; I've never seen a 49-53 version of it (but that doesn't mean they don't exist).Obviously a street design for generator clearance. The one I have has the passages immediately below the carb flanges bored out to...