Chet Herbert was the only one I knew to have ever made a commercially offered set of roller lifters for an early inline chevy six. I have only seen a photo of one set and have never had a set in my hands. Chet reground a pair of cams for me a good many years ago. They were really good cams. He used to advertise in Hot Rod that he would grind any cam with any grind for $39.00. He offered that service at that price well into the middle 1980s. I actually had a very pleasant telephone conversation with him around 1983 when I wanted to get a roller cam and lifters for the chevy but alas, no longer available and too expensive to start production over so I was stuck with a flat tappet mechanical cam. Interestingly enough, I have run isky, a howard, a couple of Clifford cams (which I believe were ground by Erson), prior to having my current cams ground by Schneider. The Herbert cam was way better then the Howard and isky, and on par with and maybe even a little better then the Clifford depending on the grind. The Schneider cam that is in my 261 is a pretty good cam, really good actually. That being said, a roller lifter would be pretty nice if you could get them to live in a street motor and take advantage of the lift profiles that may be possible with that kind of cam. Indeed, all those cams were a learning experience, trial and error as I never had access to a flow bench and dyno. So I go back to my earlier comment that a flow bench and dyno would be handy right about now, lol.
As an edit, I was looking through some of my old literature and it looks like McGurk also offered a roller lifter.
Last edited by Dragsix; 07/17/2018 12:12 PM.
