draggin97s10

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yes this is correct i was referring to the softness of aluminum to iron.

MadMike 97 Z28

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7k will be the redline. I know that you can make serious power with hyd rollers but I don't mind checking the adjustment if I solid roller will give me more power.
Do you guys think that solid roller won't yield any better results than hydraulic if I don't spin it past 7?

SS RRR

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Not sure what would be better. It used to be that even though a hyd. roller would perhaps make the same peak power at a given RPM a solid roller would supply far more torque throughout the entire rpm band. Not sure if that holds true with the combinations that are being produced today.

LSxPwrDZ

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To me it's not worth the $1000 shaft rockers you "need" with solid lift, better bigger pushrods, lifters and some really good valve springs to make use of a solid lift. GM Hi Tech did an article last year sometime on this with an LSx engine and in a nutshell they went from a 232/234 .595/.598 112lsa hydraulic cam to a solid lift upper 230's/low 240's cam and it did make more peak power obviously from being a bigger cam and wanting more RPM's but peak power increase was only 10-15hp. This is not to say that solid lift sucks but in your application for what your goals are there are much better things that big $$$ can be spent on and keeping the hydraulic setup to make more power.

I personally wouldn't go solid roller unless you are going to rev past 7500rpm.