Converting LA 360 to roller cam

B3RE said

You know, your right. I was reading the notes for the cam, which is a long snout with shaft rockers, and overlooked the magnum heads. In that case, that wouldn't be the right cam for something using MFI and an electric pump anyway. Something around 215-216 @.050" with the 1.6 rockers would be a good choice, as you mentioned. Occassionally I have one get by me. Good catch.:thumbsup:

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I'm using the old cover and I don't think I'm going to the new one anytime soon. I run an RV2 on my M1 to be special- if I switch I'll probably go to the '79-up style Sanden since I can. I have a Saginaw power pump as-is. I have a stock '96 318 Ram computer. I may end switching to a stock '98 318 Durango computer if I go OD quickly if my buddy swaps his LRE around to MPI around that time since it'll stay 727.

I wanted to keep the lift low- swapped over to stud-mount roller rockers but retained the 1.6 stock rocker ratio. I didn't see anything at 215-216 @ .05 in the final runners up on both, I didn't want the duration so low on the intake that the 'rango's 5.2 cam would be about as good with 1.7s. 213/219 and 221/225 were the ones I came down to. About all of them I've seen in shelf cams have a pretty steep split like that. Because of being a 408 I don't want the duration to be too low even though it's just around 8.8:1.