I have run solids and solid rollers in the street! You just have to stay on top of it and take care of your stuff! Solids lifter cams sound sweet on the street!
Not a doubt in my mind anymore-hence the reason I asked the question ;). Think about this one: when I working on gathering up parts the first time I put my car together as a teenager, I asked a couple people about solid cams and using them in my car-my Dad was deadset against it, and since much of the help I was getting at the time was out of his pocketbook, who was I to argue?? LOL
His reasons were along the lines of expensive machine work; I had non-adjustable fulcrum rockers in my 302 at the time, so fixing them up for adjustables would've run about $300+rockers. He also told me they'd always need adjustment-like once every couple weeks, blah blah blah. You get the idea. If I had it to do over again, I'd have probably run a solid cam when I bought Edelbrock heads for my Mustang.
Sorry to bore you to death there-lol, I'm still at odds with which cam to use in that 383 I have sitting in my storage unit back in Abilene, but I've been eyeballing the COMP XE grinds lately...either them or a Howards 281/287