Tempest, you wanna qualify that statement? Personally, I have been running a solid roller in my Hemi street car for over 7 years with zero issues. I'm kind of curious about your experience.
AndyF, I am curious, if you had a solid and a hydraulic roller that had similar specs, in what way would there be an advantage to the hydraulic? I run a mild custom Bullet grind(258/685) with Isky Redzone bushing rollers and have negligible valve-train noise. It just seems like the main advantage to hydraulics is no valve adjustment.
Gus, I can sympathise, I struggled on my friends projected build with cam selection as I was building it for him and wanted for him to have a trouble free, quiet valvetrain, torque-monster that would not require a lot of maintainence. We ended up picking a Porter custom Comp nitrided solid with EDM lifters .