[decooney]

Hey Steve,
You might check with Tom Lucas at FE Specialities, just up the road here in Sac. He's done several conversions for original FE blocks, hydraulic/solid roller setups. Many coversations over many years about this with him...

I was one of his diehard (solid lifter flat tappet FE) customers who never converted, all is still going well, but every time I see him he ribs me a bit about not catching up with modern technology and benefits. Tom's dialed into various research and testing groups and has helped a few friends on these kinds of decisions.

On the performance side of the equation, most folks here would not even believe what they just got from the dyno this week on his latest normally aspirated FE build with some recent developments - numbers I've not seen before from an FE. If I wrote it here, not too many would believe it - so I won't. Maybe Tom will come along later and post something. He is at 916-339-0427