Roller Cams in Stock Eliminator?

[Terry Cain]

Originally Posted by 1347

This roller cam thing is like beating a dead horse.
There are plenty of racers that are having success with their solid cams. Using roller cams will not help the class at all. Call the cam company of your choice and tell them you want a roller lobe for your 450 lift application. I know someone with a foxbody that cam stock with a hydraulic roller and wanted to upgrade to a solid roller. He was told no lobes are available and it would be alot of money to design a lobe to use. By the time he was done, it was gonna be 3k to put one in the engine. I'm surprised some of you are gonna spend more time trying to lobby for a roller cam instead of just putting a solid cam in.

There will be 150 cars at Indy in stock, and there are more than 45 with solid cams. The 30% number is fake news!

That's cheap compared to $2200 for tappet lifters, $1200 billet cam, and EVERYTIME you start it wondering if this is the run it eats a lifter and cam up on. Maybe 40% is a better number. Still a big disadvantage running tappet over the newer stuff and if you don't wanna run it no one is forcing you to.