advice: 500hp SB build

danmc77 said

Sounds like a nice build - what's the deck height w/ the pistons you went with, and what CC heads did you go with? Were they shaved or anything?

I've never run a solid cam before - how do they compare on the street vs, a hydro (maint., driveability, etc.)?

what about the intake - was it port matched or modified at all?

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Well, with hind sight being 20/20, I should have just gone with the flat tops and a zero deck...but because of my haste to get this thing together I ended up having to mill the heads a lot to get the compression I wanted (long story, but the short version is I'm trying to get my heap running before the Pinks All Out race @ ORP at the end of May).

I ended up with my heads measuring 57 cc's, and the pistons have about a 20 cc dish...my machine shop ordered these custom pistons and balanced the assembly just 2 days before I found out that my heads (after port work) were 66.5 cc's (which would have been about 11.2:1 compression)....GRRRRR....bad timing....oh well, that's why I had to mill my heads soooo much.

This will be my first solid roller, I just clearanced the block a few months back. From what I hear, setting the valves is only every once in a while (about twice a year according to my friends with solid cams).