340 dyno chart thoughts

There are too many people that are getting mixed up in my answers. In going to try and stop doing that. Wish I knew how to quote just part of a post and then answer it. Copy and paste is too tedious for me.


Anyway, I agree not to get all caught up in advertised numbers, but they do matter. Once the valve is off the seat about .020-.025 you start getting some flow. If you up the pressure it happens earlier. We know that at overlap, the pull on the intake port can be as high as 120 inches on a decent prepped street head. So with long slow ramps you get into issues with reversion. That's why GM in the aforementioned 30-30 Duntove junker and some other junk GM cams that I can't recall the nomenclature on, had LSA's as wide as 116. It was to help with the bi seat to seat numbers. They were **** cams.

To quote part of a post, just delete between the quote boxes (those little [ symbols that say quote inside. Then it'll only show what's in that area. Try messing around with it.

As for cams, advertised numbers do matter. I'm not trying to imply they don't. Obviously they come into play. BUT I'm saying calculating things like overlap, and trying to determine idle quality off something that can be measured in several different ways (.0006, .050, etc etc). Is not the way to go about it. Looking only at duration, advertised or not, is a great way to overlook a lot about the cam. As you said, some people look at a 250 duration cam and say "That's way to big". But it's not that simple.

As for GM? I try not to touch that stuff! lol