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Time to address my camshaft

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  • Start date Start date Mar 23, 2006

1991vert

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hydraulic roller or solid roller?

blown 347.
 
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Go Hydraulic and be done with it.

Tlyer
 

1991vert

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think so?

any reasons for hydr. over solid roller?
 

1991vert

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ttt
 
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The soild roller is better suited for high RPM use, say 6500 + RPM. One of the downsides is the valves need to be adjusted fairly often. Anderson Ford makes their High-Rev hydraulic rollers, and they seem to offer the best of both worlds.
 
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Not only will the adjustment have to be done with a solid roller, but they are a little noisier too, will sound like constant valve clatter, although perfectly normal.

Unless you are racing only, stick with a hydraulic roller cam. Do you want to pull your upper intake each time you have to adjust the valves?
 
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