Camshafts and clearance

1968FormulaS340 said
Buy the cam next winter when you build your stroker. If you put in a cam for your future stroker, in the engine you have now you will probably be slower and get worse gas milage.

On top of that you run the risk needing a different cam during the stroker build.

I admit it is a bit hard to follow your thread but what i'm getting out of it is a bunch of pointless money spending that will make your car slower for a year.

Can't stress this enough When you over carb and over cam you go slower and use more gas. A horrible combination.

I haven't got a carb yet so I thought a 750 would be fine. I haven't bought a cam yet eaither. I want a nice lope and sounding car with the super 44 flow masters..Its gonna be a trailer queen most of the time.But Its gonna be driven on the street.. I have 456 gears and I'am gonna use a 3600-4200 stall..

green1 said
Is the piston domed? about .017 out of the hole? That is a factory piston.

I will have to find this out when I take the heads off to put my 915s on..

fishy68 said
Ok, if it already has a healthy sounding cam in it now and it ran 7's in the Duster what do you think you can accomplish? Sounds like it must be built pretty well now. If you want it to sound like a top fuel dragster go ahead but most likely, like others have already pointed out, you'll just slow it down and waste money doing so. If your plans are to build a stroker why not save the money and use it to make the stroker a killer engine?

From what I can remember it sounded great with a nice lope. I'am going by hear say about it running 7s in a duster. But I did see it in action in the mud with stock 355 gears and 40s. I want it to have a nice lope to it when I cruise around town..