Agreed. Not a formatting problem, though. Just incorrect information. The person who wrote that probably heard of someone that had a 292/.508” cam in a 340 and took it as the gospel that the factory put it in.
I’m assuming your numbers mean big end weight & small end weight. If so, the 2 gram difference between 166 and 164 is ok, but 429 and 415 is too big of a difference.
Aluminum heads are more resistant to detonation than iron and therefore they can typically be run at higher compression than iron. I don’t know how good the gas is where the OP is, but I’ll bet the increased compression is not the issue.
My buddy is doing a budget 360 build for his Dart. He had great success with small Lunati Voodoo cam in a 383 he had, so I told him to get another Voodoo cam. Lunati gladly took his money, then wouldn’t answer the phone when he called for updates on his order. The machine shop that did the work...
FWIW, The Red Brick, aka "Tim's Valiant", which is quite possibly the best handling torsion bar and leaf spring Mopar out there had 40+ year old stock 340 rear leaf springs. The rear suspension was very compliant. I wish I knew what happened to it. It changed hands twice since I sold it, but I...
The show seemed like it was better than last year, but a bit of feedback for those who ran the show. The photo thing was a great idea, but I don't know if you realized that cars were backed up all the way to the main entrance and had to creep forward and either idle or keeping shutting the...