So, if you had all the same specs as a Stocker cam, but had way more lift...... would it go slower?
Way back when my friend was in the very early stages of getting the car sorted out..... we were doing cam swaps.
As a bracket car it had already run the bottom of the 11’s, so we knew the “car” was capable of it.
But the bracket motor was making way more power.
We were probably into the 5th or 6th cam....... none of which proved to be quite what we were after(only one had run 11’s, and that one was a real parts breaker)....... we thought maybe we were barking up the wrong tree with the cams.
So, as a test...... we put in his old UD street/strip solid lifter cam.
.100 more lift and much better ramps.
Car picked up .4 and 5mph.
Yeh...... there was power in a cam.
The thing with the low lift isn’t so much about the lift of the cam...... you have to think about how much can the heads be flowing if you’re only opening the valves that far?
Regardless of the timing events, the lift rule is a restriction....... and the cars would be even quicker and faster if they could run more lift.