Help me pick a cam

If he goes with 290 degrees of duration it may sound neat but I bet it wouldn't even get out of it's own way considering it's going in a low compression 318. And a 290 degree duration cam on stock 25 year old springs that weren't good enough for a 270 degree cam when new???? Everytime I tried it when I was young I found I threw good money after bad cause it allways caused problems. You don't have to spend big bucks but if you go too cheap it'll bite you in the butt most of the time.

Your right about most cams being ground from the same blank but that don't mean their ground the same. The Summit cams work ok but are really not very aggressive at all. Alot of total duration and moderate lift. .050 duration is low in comparison to the Comp XE or Lunati cams that's why the Comp's and Lunati's stomp them on power.

As the old saying goes. "You gets what you pays for".