yet another cam thread for stroker

We had an engine like yours on the dyno recently. Mild build, dual plane intake, budget heads, modest compression, etc. The guy had been talked into a big cam and the engine ran like crap. Sounded mean but wouldn't make any power. We put a cam that was 20 degrees smaller in and the engine picked up 100 hp. Big cams only make big power if everything else is big. If everything else is small then the big cam kills the torque and the small heads, dual plane intake and low compression team up to kill the top end number.