Comparing Mech To Hyd Cam Adv/.050” Durations
But that all changes around 6500 where a solid flat just runs away but my car is 90% Street and if I was building an engine for the strip solid would be the only way to go ( roller)
No, again...a correctly sized solid lifter cam will KILL and hydraulic lifter cam at any RPM. Period.
Hydraulic lifters, like the powerglide, were developed for people who think your engine should be quite as a church mouse. Even the "modern" hydraulic lobes are noisy so you can't even claim the noise factor.
As we've become a more chucked nation, people thought lashing valves was a chore. Women didn't want to deal with it. It's along these lines that world respected sociologists spent millions of dollars to learn that by the early 1970's, women were making most do the car buying decisions. Sorry, just a FACT.
And to that FACT, car manufacturers decided to make the cars more "female" friendly. Automatic transmissions, lights and buzzers instead of gauges, vanity mirrors in the visors and glove box...**** like that and more. And the hydraulic lifter fits that category.
I'd you are building a performance engine, there is no reason to run a hydraulic lifter. Unless you don't want to lash the valves. To say you are using a hydraulic lifter because it makes more power is insane. And wrong.
