Trick flow heads how are they ?

If your cooling system is up to the task, that will run better on straight pump gas.

One thing to remember is this isn’t a late model deal. If you can keep the coolant temp no more than 180 (170 is even better) it makes running pump gas easier, and it makes more power.

Never should it get to 200 or more. And 190 is too high unless you are at a stop light and it creeps up from 180 and then goes right back down. Even then you should be able to correct that.

Coolant temp and controlling it is a big deal in running pump gas on higher than “conventional wisdom” compression ratios.

Also, I’d be more concerned with centering the overlap triangle when degreeing the cam rather than just putting it where the cam card says it should be.

If you go to mgispeedware.com you can type in ll your cam info and look at the overlap triangle. If the ICL the cam card calls out centers the overlap triangle that’s where I’d put it. If the overlap triangle isn’t centered with the ICL the cam card calls out, just keep taking advance out of the program until it is centered and install that ICL.

Those two things are HUGE in making compression ratios the gurus say is too much for pump gas pump gas friendly. And, you’ll make more horsepower.
So if you're able to have your cam degree to the perfect degree and you're able to keep your temperatures down to the perfect temperature then you can use pump gas? Should we also drive this car in Fantasyland? LOL.. That's why I was saying in a previous thread that people need a little leeway... 90% of the people aren't going to read some Guru article on how to perfectly set there cam and even if they did 90% of those people ain't going to do it themselves anyways.. you know that 90% of the people here aren't going to need those extra points of compression as they're not trying to eke out the last 10th at the drag strip...