Help me pick a cam

I had a stock '71 340 with the factory cam and it had a nice lumpy idle and made pretty good power up to about 5,500.

There have to be hundreds if not thousands of little-used OEM 340 cams floating around the used parts market that could be had for very little $$$.

Take the money you save on the cam and buy a new set of lifters and springs. The whole thing can't cost much, and should work okay with a low compression 318. It worked okay with a low compression 340 in 1972-'73.

Lift is low enough that coil bind won't be a problem, but the 340 springs may not sit in the seats on the 318 heads. Might need smaller-than 340-size diameter springs, but that shouldn't be a problem, either.

Good luck. Keep it simple...

Bill, in Conway, Arkansas