Advice: Solid Roller or Hydraulic Roller for street car

Bewy said

I haven't read all the replies, so somebody else may have covered this. With sol lifters, you can never get:
-lifter pump up
-bent valves from lifter pump up
-ticking noise because lifter are bleeding down
-bent p'rods from the above
With a sol lifter cam, you have some ability to vary the lash slightly to experiment with idle quality.

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While true, I doubt he’ll have these problems with a mild street engine, but I never say never. Just doubtful, very.

What I would say is the factory Hyd. lifter is a heavy item and show’s limitations vs a solid lifter. This is the real caveat. I’m running the factory lifters now on the wife’s roller 360.

Once she gets bored of the power….. then a larger solid roller will take its place.

The few things that are nice of the solid roller (probably mentioned earlier I’m sure) are good pluses with my favorite one being the ability to RPM higher. Just give it the ability to breathe and it’ll go.


OP - @autoxcuda runs a small solid in his car and he’ll tell you. He’s in the car a bunch. I like his combo.