Lunati Hydraulic FT Cam users..........
Yeh, I’m probably out to lunch.
No way a small block with aluminum heads, headers, aftermarket camshaft, and aftermarket intake and carb could ever make power to 5900.
But...... there was that 30hp gain at 5300 too........ hmmmm.
Bahhhh!!! Who needs it.
Right...... solid cams aren’t reliable and are always meant for high rpm screamers.
Like slant 6’s ...... model A’s...... Farmall tractors.
Sure, you CAN make power past 5,900 with aluminum heads, aftermarket cam, intake, carb etc.
But with THAT cam? With the rest of his combination? You're not considering the rest of the build or his plan.
And I didn't say
anything about solid cams not being reliable. But again, we're not talking about a /6, or a Model A, or a Farmall are we? None of those are relevant to this build, or even to the aftermarket solid lifter cams available. My point in general, and it's completely backed up by the fact that this thread has gone 11 pages and only has a handful of on topic replies, is that you guys are pushing the OP to build something other than what he wants. Because you're chasing performance that he doesn't need, because drag racers are always focused on "peak" and nothing else.
Exactly where did he say it was the end-all? It was just a small example to help make a point... I believe you're the one taking this small example into the next stratosphere as the end-all and then making a whole rant about it...
I wonder why they even bothered putting adjustable rockers and solid lifters in 273s?.. my wife never complain in her 66 barracuda...
11 pages debating sold vs hydraulic lifters when the entire point of the thread was to ask about Lunati cams with hydraulic flat tappet lifters and I'm the one taking it "into the next stratosphere"? Not a single post from you in this thread has been relevant to the original question. Probably because you have no relevant experience to add on the topic, but I'm the one out of line.
And I said nothing about the original solid lifter engines. But they're as irrelevant to this discussion as some wild solid lifter cam the OP doesn't want. I've put hundreds of thousands of miles on solid lifter engines, that wasn't the point here.
LOL the lifters will cost more than the cam !!!..
And? They all have to work together. If those lifters give the OP what he wants, who cares if the lifters or the cam cost more? If this is about performance how come suddenly when it comes to lifters you're a cheap skate?
