Symptoms of wrong cam installation

My brother doesnt work on a lot of stuff himself. One reason is he works 7 days a week and has a ton of irons in the fire. I know i dont. I pay to get heads ported, and my engines assembled, because there are people around way better at it than me. I spec everything out, then enjoy seeing if it performs the way i envision it will. Its worked out really well doing it that way over the years. That said, i have popped enough heads off, pulled enough trannies, lashed enough valves, etc, etc, etc, to be semi dangerous taking care of my stuff…lol
Not all of us have your skillset, or even care one way or the other if we do.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Everybody has different things they are good at. I am just happy to be able to spend time with him at the track once in a while, neither of us will be around forever
Try not to be so judgemental about what reasons people have for how and why they do things. He has skills i doubt very highly you have. Everybody is different.


Waiting 13 months to have an engine built when I was 20 changed my mindset. And the only reason it wasn’t longer was I told him to keep the engine when it was finished. I would sacrifice the 600.00 which was big money back then to make a point. What really cooked my goose was my cousin (a dirt track racer) was having issues and I told him about “Bill”. Well guess what “Bill” built an engine for him, before mine was done. I lost a good friend that day but I got the books out and started reading. I’m not what you would call a smart man but I was smart enough not to put up with that crap. I became the go to guy for degreeing in cams for friends and people in town and never charged a cent. I hate second guessing and it would kill me to not know why an engine wasn’t running as it should.