Would people be afraid to buy a Solid roller motor LT1?
06-14-2007, 10:45 AM
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it depends on if you're going to take the time to sort the car out and make it as quick as it should be. if it runs the number and you sell to a guy who is an experienced enthusiast i see no issue and in that case it'll be worth more. if you just wanna sell it to the avg joe just put a mild hydro cam in it (230ish @ .050") and call it a day.
my personal vote though put the solid roller in it and dont look back, somebody will want it. and if they're apprehensive about it run them through lashing it and show em its no big deal if they're serious about buying it.
my personal vote though put the solid roller in it and dont look back, somebody will want it. and if they're apprehensive about it run them through lashing it and show em its no big deal if they're serious about buying it.
and yes, the misconception about solid rollers with todays technology are way overblown, but I don't know how you can ever change that thought process as I've been preaching for year about how wronge the old thought process is.
06-14-2007, 11:05 AM
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It depends. Are you planning on keeping the motor FI or are you going to carb it? Unless you plan on spinning this thing higher than the stock PCM can handle, (7,200rpm), and are going to invest in an aftermarket fuel management system that can handle the extra revs, it really doesn't make much sense to go solid roller.
Thing is, while solid roller valvetrain parts have improved since the 60's like Joe B mentioned, so have hydraulic roller's right along with it. Up until just a few years ago, the big push for going solid roller was because your power goals demanded an RPM range that was higher than what a hydraulic roller valvetrain could handle. But the market since then has upped the ante. When you look at what the LS7 engine is capable of, with a 7,000 RPM redline out of a valvetrain that the owner is never going to have to give a second thought to, (and we have yet to discover if that's only as far as it can be pushed), we see that the solid roller "performance gap" has been significantly reduced.
Thing is, while solid roller valvetrain parts have improved since the 60's like Joe B mentioned, so have hydraulic roller's right along with it. Up until just a few years ago, the big push for going solid roller was because your power goals demanded an RPM range that was higher than what a hydraulic roller valvetrain could handle. But the market since then has upped the ante. When you look at what the LS7 engine is capable of, with a 7,000 RPM redline out of a valvetrain that the owner is never going to have to give a second thought to, (and we have yet to discover if that's only as far as it can be pushed), we see that the solid roller "performance gap" has been significantly reduced.
06-14-2007, 03:48 PM
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