Advice needed on my project

[WhiteSnake]

Hey guys, my current project is my 96 SS Camaro. The car is going to be a street/strip car that I plan to run out at the track as much as possible throughout the summer as well as using it as my daily driver when the weather is nice. I don't really have a budget as I have been slowly buying pars whenever I have extra money and since it the racing season here is pretty much all over I have all winter to get this thing up and running. The car currently has a Moser 9" in it and for the suspension I just received my order from Wolfe Racecraft for the Torque arm, control arms, panhard rod, subframe connectors, sway bar, mini tubs and roll bar. I have a set of Qa1 shocks as well and I am waiting for the k member and control arms from PA racing to show up.

I am currently getting the parts for the motor together. I already have all of the bottom end stuff, Scat crank, rods and diamond pistons 4 bolt main caps. It is going to be 396ci with a good shot of nitrous. Now where I could use some advice, I picked up some new AFR 227 heads from a friend at a really good price almost too good to pass up. After doing some research today I am starting to think that they are a little on the big side and they will push the power band too far up for a car that I want to drive around daily. I will also have to get new rocker arms for it. I will be running it with a ported stock intake and duel 58mm throttle body for now and the PCM has been converted to an OBD1 setup.

So my question would be what kind of heads would you be putting on this thing if it was your project?

Also if I when everything running good I would like to get up to a 250 shot. Should I do a half fill of the block?

And the last question, I have never run a car with solid lifters. I know you have to adjust them periodically but what are the benefits? Do they just make a bit more power and make the motor more responsive?

The competition for my car is my brothers 06 Z06 vette, it has a full exhaust including long tubes, CAI, tune, twin disc clutch and 345/30/19 drag radials I only got one pass out of it this year as the clutch pedal stuck to the floor on the second pass. It ran a 11.7@127 on a terrible 60'. We got the new clutch in it but there are no more track days left that we can make it to.The start of next season should be interesting.