Lunati Hydraulic FT Cam users..........

RustyRatRod said

OK gotchya. My bad. Remember, I'm half blind, over half deaf and way over half stupid. lol

THAT outta the way, I fully agree that solid lifters can have an advantage.......BUT a hydraulic camshaft with a modern grind and the right lifters I believe could rival or even beat a similar solid. I don't get all the hydraulic hate all of a sudden.......but oh well. lol

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No worries, I know how it is around here ;)

No hydraulic hate here. Personally I think they can meet the performance of any solid, but the engineering and testing required is beyond the scope of a shade tree hot rodder. The statement about 800+ hp hydraulic motors is relevant, I don't care if they do have better lifter bank angles! If an LS can spin 12k with hydraulic rollers then an LA can go 7500 with proper valvetrains choices too.

Problem is that since our engines are no longer viable for most sponsored racing (except nostalgia and vintage stuff), there's no serious support for them (and definitely zero factory support) and so all the parts made are "hobby spec" versus actual hard-use parts. It's a reality we have to suffer even when we delude ourselves into thinking otherwise. There's a few suppliers still making killer "old school" hard parts and such, but none are making hydraulic lifters because they're too "rocket sciency" and solids are plain simple.

All that said, I tend to agree that too many chest thumpers claim that a man card is only available to those with a solid cam and so piss on even modest hydraulic builds (if anyone thinks this is directed at them, it's not, but your suspicion says a lot about you ;) ) and so those who just don't want to run a solid will blame noise or adjustment intervals or some other boogeyman in order to avoid as much "hate". I say a pox on that, if someone doesn't want a solid then they don't want solid and that's the end of it.

/rant.

I like my microtrol lifters so far :D