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Stephen, I am no expert, they will add their advice when they see this. I can say, that's a pretty nice set up you have there. As far as the cam goes, basically you have five main components that work together in order to open your valves. These components change direction fairly rapidly and thus require adjustment in order to work correctly and still be able to expand and contract as your engine heats up and cools down. The hyd method uses a lifter that relys on a layer of oil within the lifter to absorb the shock and heat expansion which changes the tolerences slightly. A solid set up, is just that, solid. YOU must provide for the thermal expansion in YOUR adjustment. The "Valve lash is the distance between the tip of your rocker arm and the end of your valve stem. You will be provided with two numbers (iether cold numbers or hot numbers) in .000 of an inch, these are your valve lash values. The numbers will indicate intake valve adjustment which is a bit cooler and will be a few thousands smaller and exhaust valve adjustment which is of course a bit hotter and will a bit more for heat expansion. You adjust each cylinder on TDC of compression stroke. If you have a good set of locks on the rockers then it is reasonable to expect perhaps five thousand miles or more from an adjustmant. I have a solid blower car it has ten thousand miles on it with one recent adjustment. Your cobo is really nice and your car will haul ass. The rest of the guys will chime in and explain it better, but be sure to use the correct oil for your components and try to find a station w/E free fuel... Good luck! Post a photo....