360 street car Help
I have a 360 engine, and i like to make a race street car.
My idea is to use my 340 heads 2.02.... with the RPM air gap manifold, but which is the best camshaft for my combination (in my garage i have mopar 284 and the 268 cam) or what other recomend me to use.
The other question is which piston i would need to make this car runs better (i think in 9.5 compression aprox).
A race street car is commonly called a "Street Strip" car. It can perform double duty. Drive the street and race at the track.
Camshafts are a fickle item and since you asked for a opinion, you'll get many in which all will claim ethier to be the best or a great cam to use with as many reasons as there are different camshafts.
Since a cam is part of the overall combo, the rest of the combo needs to be known so a suggestion can be made that is at least worth something as "Guessing" at one now is worth nothing.
Answer the following questions to the best of your abilty. The more you can answer, correctly and acuratley, the better a recomendation can be made.
What year, make and model car is it?
Tranny being used
Rear end gear ratio
tire size sought or wanted
What is the highest octane at the pump can you get.
Are you going to use the stock heads?
RPM band you want to operate in.
Example; 2000 - 6000 rpm or 3000 - 6500 rpm.
How far is to far for you? (Power wise and what conssesions are you willing to make?)
How fast do you want to go in the 1/4 mile?
From these questions, your answers help dial in what your looking for and what we can recomend. When I come back to recomend something to use, I'll give two answers for parts.
The prime and more expensive part and the general and cheaper part that will do.
OH, camshafts operate in a given RPM. Our older engine use cams that operate in a RPM and that is a set in stone thing. You can't really change the cam specs once it's ground in and in use.