younggun2.0 said

you need to speak with a few cam manufacture's. be completely honest with them and tell them what you are looking for. they make cams that are designed to optimize cylinder pressure in low comp. engines. the whiplash line from hughes for instance is one of them. I would get some opinions on here about that. you can leave your rear gears and converter. you need to address the timing first thing. that ALL STARTS with the cam install. if you just line up the dots and put it in you have no idea at all where your cam is at. degree'ing a cam isn't that hard and a kit only cost about $75-150 bucks. go on youtube and have a look. thats how i learned how to do it. there are dozens of videos that show you how to do it. If you dont want to do any of that then i would bump your timing forward 2* at a time. start the car. if it starts nice and easy then keep going forward 2* until you get a slow cranking or it kicks back on the starter. then go back 2*. i bet you will be in the 19*-22* range. then you have to figure out how to limit the mech. advance in the dizzy. you want to limit it to about 35-37* total advance. all of that with the vacuum advance un hooked and plugged. this is the starting point for every thing.

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I'm not sure of the exact comp ratio, just stating the advertised ratio. The heads were not cc'd. I really don't want to buy another converter or rear gears, the car has about 20 miles on it since it was put together. If a milder cam would make it more drivable I would rather do that.

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