your thoughts on a street cam

The manual Trans cars use a "Next step up cam and gear ratio" to match the automatic trans cars in performance.

As a note, he mentions lack of torque. It was said your not missing/loosing the torque, it moves up in the RPM range.

This is what the poster said in his first post. At what point does it leave the lower end? Which depends on the gear ratio and tire size and if you have an automatic trans, the stall of the converter. The OP gets this.

But at some point, there comes a dead spot on the lower rpm range that nothing overcomes. It's just flat despite a gear ratio, tire size and converter increases or even over increases.

I agree, none of the cams listed will be a problem. Also in the OP's car, a 4spd manual, I would certainly go for the bigger cam.

I have run a manual for the hot rod almost my entire life and had a hard time relay hung things up for a better more rounded package. Thanks to this forums members, I have a much better handle on it.

I also like the thoughts on not neediest a bigger cam than the XE275 for a pure street engine /car set up. There should be plenty of power available for that. A OD trans (4or5) or a 5 or 6 spd manual would be a monster on the road.

Ir3333, I think your set up will be very good. If your going to have stock size tries on the rear or to a max of 26 inches, I would use the 224 duration cam. Ether gear ratio would work but I myself would choose the 3.55's.