This is all I was trying to confirm. I was thinking the cam card was saying the cam should be installed at the recommended ICL but if you install is dot to dot your gonna be real close to you LSA, no advance...
No, that's not what's being stated.
IF everything is indexed perfectly as machined, dot-to-dot is going to install the cam with the intake centerline at 104deg ATDC, not the "straight-up" LSA of 110deg. You check & correct it 'cause it ain't a perfect world. The tolerance stack-up can put You off 4deg real quick, crank keyway, crank & cam sprocket keyways, & cam keyway,(or dowel pin/hole), can all be off. Worse/more critical on the cam end because that error is multiplied 2X at the crank.
