I'm trying to decide which setup to go with,I'm thinkin solid roller. what do most of you recomend here , 408, high compression, maybe,,, maybe, nitrous, if i choose solid roller, how often do you have to adjust valves?

 

How high you want your rpms to go?

6,500 or more. ...... solid roller
6,000 and under ........its a waste

 

i'm thinkin about 7000, how often do you need to adjust the valves with solid rollers?

 

You mean adjust your rockers? With stud mounted you can stud girdle and prevent rocker back off.

 

ok, with the girdle, roughly how often do they need to be adjusted, I've only ever ran hyrdo's so kinda new to that set up?

 

I got girdles on my 408 with a solid roller, I don't know exactly how long they will hold the back off of the rockers off but you will know when they are backed off. Sounds like a bad lifter. With the solid roller you should have a rev limiter on the car cause if you miss a shift at high RPM and mash the gas your gonna spin 9 or 10grand. I built mine to make power up to 7200 with the cam but set the limiter at 7400 since the intake and heads are good till 7500.

 

sounds good,, how much power did u make with that setup? did u run it yet?

 

Funny story, had it on the road for half an hour thing runs crazy fast. 245/50/16s will spin in 3rd without a problem by just mashing the gas over 3500 rpm. But couple of problems.

1.) Zoom gives you a plastic piolet bearing with their stage 4 clutch which was a little suspect to me but we stuck it in
2.) Missing a shift to 3rdat 6500 and hitting 5th gear makes pieces out of your 5th gears
3.) Making pieces and limping the car home eats synchros
4.) Eating synchros causes mis alignment of the internals of the trans which eats plastic piolet bearings

So its off the road right now, rebuit the trans agian got a 5th gear from astro performance so the entire trans is now completly new from them, new blow proof bell,and new brass piolet bearing. I want to get it to a dyno but it being in pieces sort of stops that

 

sounds nuts,,, i can't wait to get mine all ordered and put together.. you should let me know what kinda power u make when u dyno it,, id be really interested to know

 

The girdles will prevent rockers from backing off. It is a great invention. Before those it wa a couple of times a month issue.