Why so much inital timing???

RustyRatRod said
I go along with all that. And I didn't say it was a bad combo........just that MOPAROFFICIAL has a very valid point.

Perhaps.......sometimes like me, his delivery could be a bit more polished, but he is right.

What I would do would be to run a compression test. It costs nothing. I bet the cylinder pressure is at or under 150........but again........so what?

I've run engines before with stock compression and HUGE camshafts......with cranking pressures at 100. LOL

But they sounded kick ***.

He's right DCR could be higher. Not arguing against that, I said that from the start. He is wrong in saying stuff like "Because the cam is too big for the static compression. People too many times do not calculate the dynamic/cranking psi when deciding a cam" and "I'm saying the int close is killing your dynamic compression.". Turns out the builder specced the cam specifically to this setup. And, that cam isn't too big, it's at 8:1 DCR. And killing it? To me killing it means 7:1 or lower DCR. That's a dog every day of the week. Then he says "Ideally you wanna shoot for an 8.1- or better dynamic". Which obviously OP was doing, because that's where he's at. And MOPAROFFICIAL would have also known that, had he bothered to take the time to figure it out. He didn't.

I just have a problem when some guy comes into a thread, doesn't take the time to actually look at what is going on, and just says "I'm a genius and you did this this and this wrong." Do I tell people what's wrong? Yup. Do I also teach and show them the reason behind it? Yup. Because to me, the devil is in the details. Working with methanol race engines taught me that.

Which, speaking of that and your mention of big cams, I can't tell you how many guys I met that wanted that "race engine idle". Not realizing that this things sit there at 1700+rpm idles, with 700+ lift cams, and and only make power from 7K-9K RPM cause all they do all night is go around and around in a circle at full throttle. And that oddly enough, that doesn't work so well on the street!