Oregon Cam #346 - questions

This is why I made a comment regarding the duration figure. It's pretty big. Mine, at 250@ .050.....I did for two reasons. One, because it was necessary because the static compression came out too high, due to the head being milled too much.....that was actually an accident, but I still must utilize it.

Two, because simply, I want it to sound nasty. I want it to be FUN. It's a light car, 64 Valiant 2 door about 2650 pounds with 3.55 gears and 13" tires. Probably has an effective gear ratio closer to 3.91. It WILL have a 4.10 after I put the ford 9" in it. So, my situation is a little different. I don't mind a little loss on the bottom end, plus, I'm replacing a 170 with a 225. 55 more cubes, a lot more compression four barrel carburetor, bigger cam, bigger exhaust......it may NOT experience a loss of bottom end in comparison. It's gonna be FUN and that's all that matters to me!

Exactly Rob, what you are after is more like a road racing engine... 4 speed, low gears and keeping her wound up that is where the 819 cam and the more street grinds are made for. If you have higher gears, automatic and are just cruising around and want it to pull hard when you do get the urge are 2 different builds.