One very interesting cam that I've discovered recently looks good on paper- - - - -the Melling CCS-1. It's a solid lifter shaft with a slightly more radical grind than the Elgin E-293, which is a clone of the Corvette/261 cam except for the lash adjustment figures. I bought one a couple of weeks ago, and it will be going into the prototype test engine I'm working on for dyno testing at the moment. On Ebay, it's also slightly less expensive than the Elgin cam.
Both styles of solid lifters are available on Ebay, and Comp Cams will custom make pushrods to any specifications you want, if regular stovebolt pushrods don't work for some reason. There are two different lengths of pushrods for the 54-62 235, depending on whether the tall "milk can" lifters are used, or the shorter, more conventional design is installed.
Jerry
