292/508 question

crackedback said

Always crank degrees with me.

Yes, and they/mopar still missed the mark on a lot of tuning and set up approaches. My favorite... Set total timing and let initial fall where it may. Rotten advice!
Pinion snubbers are good.... Nah, they are a crutch for a bad rear spring/suspension.

Plenty of good in those manuals, they aren't gospel.

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I think I have told this story before.......but back about 1992, I had a guy referred to me by a friend who wanted me to go through the 318 in his 84 W150. It had like 38s on it...I don't remember, but they were pretty big.

Anyway, the guy already had his cam picked out.......you guessed it, the 508. I tried to talk him into another cam. He wasn't havin it. So I told him it was gonna be a dead dog down low.

I got the engine done and back in and fired off to break in. When the cam was broken in good, I let her down to idle. Man that thing really sounded nasty. Especially through the new open headers I also installed. LOL

But the guy was REAL happy with it. He said it actually turned it the hell on through mud holes in low range.