Cam advance question.

Dragonbat13 said
I did not say I wanted to advance the cam. I asked if I needed a timing chain that would allow a cam to be advanced.

Part of the reason for the Rhodes lifter was for "the hope for a good hydraulic lifter". I would use Johnson lifters... But that's only because Hughes sells them. (In all honestly I Believe hydraulic lifters are failing in performance situations because the spring load is too high. For instance I am going to run comp 901-16 springs instead of Hughes 1110. I gotta research more on that.

I don't have alot of money for this build.... I gotta do the work.

an answer that was helpful with some real world numbers.

I got both carbs. THIS MAN IS SO RIGHT WITH SIMPLE LOGIC!

I wish you would learn some punctuation. You seem to know wtf your talking about..... But I can't read your advice.

Ok, you phrased your question in an odd way. That's what prompted my response.

The correct answer is get a timing set that is adjustable. Tolerance stacking is a real issue. You have the key locations in the crank and cam, and the groove locations in the both gears as well. Any one or all of them can be off. The cam grinder can miss getting the lobe in the correct location (seen that so many times with regrinds it's not funny) so don't count that out.

You MUST degree the cam to know exactly where it is, and the only way to correct it if it's wrong is to have a timing set that has multiple key ways or use an offset key.

So the question should have been do I need an adjustable timing set. Answer: YES.