Don't understand cams
So tell me, who's advice was good yours or the person you claim was wrong. DUDE
I'm sorry that I wasted your time, asking for free advice, but if you don't want to share what you had to pay for, then why bother responding. I guess its like my poor old deceased Daddy used to say,
Advice is only as good as you pay for it.
DUDE, there IS more than one way to skin a cat. Just because I say I don't do something a certain way, it doesn't make that way wrong. Just DIFFERENT. I'm pretty secure in what I say because I have done it that way, and still do it that way. That doesn't make it the only way, or even the right way. Again, it's all about the combination. If I did your engine it would certainly be different that if others did it. How we get to the end product may be by different roads, but the end result is what counts.
I'll give you an example. I was building an engine for a customer. It was a 408 inch deal, with ported eddy heads, a custom Cam Motion HRT cam, 10.8:1 compression, T&D rockers, 1 7/8 headers and a Mallory ignition. I told the guy it would make 500 HP falling off a log. At that time I had never even seen a place like FABO. Hell, I didn't know they existed. Everyone on the web was telling him that if it made 425 HP to be happy. I said if that's all it makes, I'll smash it with a sledge hammer. All try keyboard builders hated most everything I did. By the way, FABO was not the site making the trouble.
Anyway, on a third party dyno, it made 565 HP, I forget the torque and it did it all by 5200 RPM. I sent the dyno sheets to the cam grinder, and they figured if we used a bit more cam, spun the engine to a modest 6000 RPM, it probably would have broke the 600 HP mark. But the customer didn't want to turn it "that tight".
My point is, other do the same thing, but with different parts etc.
The reality of all this is, while many of us don't agree on such minutiae as LSA, IVC how much compression you can actually run on pump gas and other stuff that guys who have been doing this crap for decades argue about, I think if you go back and look, we ALL agreed that the cam you posted was NOT for what YOU needed.
So, the cut of it all is that we did agree on what you asked. We did not necessarily agree on other cam timing events. But we did agree that that cam was JUNK, for YOU.
What I see in all this is guys of various experience, backgrounds and education levels did their very best to help you to understand a very difficult, extremely complex internal combustion engine component.
One more thing and then I'm DONE trying to help someone who again, is unwilling to READ what is being given to you, for FREE. You can call 10 different cam grinders, with exactly the same specs and get exactly 10 different sets of cam specs. All THEY all wrong? Nope. It's the same thing. They all have their ways, their understanding, their ways of conceptualizing of what the correct cam timing events SHOULD be. They are not all wrong, just different.
Go back through this thread and read the discussion that is happening. No one here is calling you stupid. No one here expects you to understand everything we wrote. Go read the links RRR posted. Then read this thread, again. You'll start picking the concepts out of all the fluff. It's there.
Your attitude is holding you back. I don't want to speak for the whole of FABO, but I will say no one posted in this thread to confuse you, belittle you or do anything of th sort but help you.
