Free cam build...
So PRH for someone like me who doesn’t speak camshaft …what will my free cam do right or wrong?
If you build a motor where that would be a suitable cam...... it shouldn’t do anything “wrong”.
There will just be other options that could make more power.
One thing that’s going for it....... it doesn’t look like it needs a lot of spring to maintain valvetrain control...... so it should be relatively easy on parts.
Did you read the article in the link?
There was a 37hp difference between two of the bigger cams.
That’s a pretty big difference considering they probably cost within $20 of each other.
(The two Comp cams they tried were off the shelf grinds. IMO, the off the shelf drag stuff from Comp leaves something to be desired. Way better options could have been used, that would have resulted in noticeablely better power.
Those were poor choices, as evidenced by the lower power output).
The point being, there isn’t likely going to be some magic combination of parts where that Crane cam is the “best” cam you could use, in terms of tq/hp.
If you had all the parts for the build laying in a pile, except the cam.
And you could put any cam you wanted in it........ would that be your number one choice?
If you had a bunch of stuff laying around that you wanted to slap together to go bracket racing....... sure. I’d use it.
But....... build a motor from scratch around it? I can’t see myself doing that.
