Help me to choose the right cam
I think your going to be sorry for buying heads with oversized valves for your application and I know your going to be sorry for dealing with Indy Cylinder head. A set of stock valves 2.08/ 1.74 would have served you a lot better in your application.
We have at set of ported 452 heads with stock size valves on top of a 500" drag race engine in a 63 Plymouth that doesn't run out of power until 5500 rpms and pulls like a freight train. Point I am making is your not going to have any air speed in those heads with those big valves and thus no torque. But like they say everyone has there opinion on it.
Tom
I hope your not right but whats done is done. Im sure you have a MUCH better idea of what needs to be done than I do however.
I do have some ideas about getting air movement though so lets see what happens.
No comment yet on dealing with Indy cause I am still waiting on the heads.
I will say that customer service really stinks it seems no matter who we deal with and Im sure it stems from everyone undercutting everyone else, there simply is so little room for profit anymore regardless of what a man does. This in turn makes everyone unhappy and they seem to want everyone else around them unhappy.
Thanks for what you posted, it did help, it gave me something to think about. I do understand what you mean and had not considered that before making the purchase. I will now have to think of a way to make up for my mistake.
My initial thought ( to a big timer like you Im sure it may sound too simplistic ) was to do a nice job of getting dual snorkels plumbed into the air cleaner that I choose, I am a bodyman by trade and am good at what I do so I know I can do a nice job.
They offered a single snorkel on some of these trucks and the inlet was just below H-lamp, Im going to ad another to the other side.
I guess that this really isnt going to help so much as low speeds or takeoff and that is prob. when I will need the air movement the most but its a start.
If you have any other suggestions of improving air speed Im all ears.
Not trying to build something that I expect to go fast, just trying to have some fun and hopefully learn a few things along the way.
