A roller cam in a BBC is cheaper to run in the long run than a flat tapper, I don't care who you are and how you set the thing up. You have to make dam sure the lifter bores are at the perfect angle and placement. If you run a nice tame cam like a stock BBC cam well then you don't have problems but anything slightly aggressive will cause you to wipe out a cam lobe easy. Hey your young you can learn it thru someone else or thru spending a bunch of money fixing it.

Yeah, it's a can of worms because most of us have been there done that. Who gives a rats *** what's fashionable, i just want something that doesn't break and cause me to buy a new cam, lifters and fix the block or buy a new one. You can run a stock BBC block and never have a failure but the only way to be sure is to true the lifter bores and that aint cheap, just another reason to like CNC machined aftermarket and bowtie blocks, but at that $$$ level you have the initail coin to go roller so you don't screw around with flat tappets. Basically it's cheaper just tgo buy good roller lifters now and a billet cam, your not going to break that IF you do things right. Hell a hyd roller setup can get you everything you need out of a BBC without too much trouble, just have to do it right.

Bret

 

heres probes page with what i would call a decent dome for street use.

http://www.probeindustries.com/Pisto...v_454_dome.htm