The funny part about all of this is I was talking to a retired neighbor a couple of years back about this very topic.

He had owned a small machine shop in the little town where we lived.

He had no idea that I'd done what I spoke about in the above post but started talkin' about "speed secrets" that they did back in the day.

He brought up using solid lifters on a hydraulic cam as one of the "secrets".

I just thought it was kinda funny that I had done exactly what he had brought up.