Smallblock efficiency or How to have your cake and eat it too

Let's talk about the camshaft. Here we don't necessarily need to pull WAY back on cam timing and run a little weenie cam. After all we are talking about a musclecar and in this case a 340. I know a solid FT cam up to 250 @ .050" with .560" lift on a 112 LSA can pull down a solid 19MPG if the carb and ignition are spot on. I would use EDM lifters here as well. You cannot beat a solid flat tappet for stone axe reliability /cost/performance. A word about solid rollers here as I know some of you would choose them. I would not as I do not trust them in MY engine that I am going to drive hundreds of KM's in single 3-4hr trips. I will gladly give up the 20-25 hp a roller might give me in exchange for not trashing my engine and leaving me on the side of the road at some point. So. what about hydraulic rollers you say? Well they aren't going to give me the RPM capability of a solid and this 340 will easily make power past their limits of about 6700. Besides I hate hydraulics in a muscle car. J.Rob