Cam ID/Application Help!

[XFX]

Need some input on this cam. Seems to be from the early 80-s and is a white box clevite performance cam that outwardly looks similar to the mopar cam.

I never got into the mopar cams and the odd way they present the specs so this is why im needing help.

Not a shocker this 80-s cam even being a white boxer screams of quality in machine work vs many out of the box cams of today.

So is this close to the mopar cam? If not in what ways and what would the proper application be? I might have a use for this and ended up with a few from a friend who cleaned out an old napa building where they buyer was just chucking everything in a dumpster for melt down weight but we saved some of the mopar stuff.

Thank You for any input.

 

[ch1ll]

With the exception that the opening and closing points at .006 lift not shown, the spec's shown are common for all cams.
Do you know anything at all about cams?

 

[XFX]

Well of course I do in the specific area of the current modern cams I use.

However the older cams are more of grey area when I see things like ADV. 324 dur in a production car cam for say like 1970.

If things were so easily understood id ask why there are tons and tons of cam questions on this site from simple to complex as well as questions concerning the "real" specs of a cam when it comes to the older mopar cams.

My question is really about how this cam looks in relationship to the boxed mopar .508 cam since there are so many posts and questions about that cam even after what 40 years or so about its real specs vs how mopar classified them.

So im sorry if my question bothered you.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Need some input on this cam. Seems to be from the early 80-s and is a white box clevite performance cam that outwardly looks similar to the mopar cam.

I never got into the mopar cams and the odd way they present the specs so this is why im needing help.

Not a shocker this 80-s cam even being a white boxer screams of quality in machine work vs many out of the box cams of today.

So is this close to the mopar cam? If not in what ways and what would the proper application be? I might have a use for this and ended up with a few from a friend who cleaned out an old napa building where they buyer was just chucking everything in a dumpster for melt down weight but we saved some of the mopar stuff.

Thank You for any input.

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Yes, it's pretty close to the Mopar .508 cam. The .508 cam is 248.5 degrees @.050 where this cam is 243. But of course, it could be the same or bigger, depending on how the two are measured exactly. Mopar was very proprietary about how they got their numbers. Whatever engine you put that in better have at least 10:1 compression. If not, you'll need to advance it a good little bit.

 

[a-bodyguy]

very close to my general kinetics cam
300 300 243 243 508 108 106 rhoads lifters

 

[cookietruck]

If you google search there are some posts with .050” events for the mopar 509 cam.
Int 20 btc 48 abdc
Exh 56bbdc 12 atdc
108 lsa

So this cam is close to the 509 mp cam. About 5* smaller @.050. Same lsa.

 

[XFX]

Thank you all for the input. Ive not much faith in the normal search engines these days since the great AI has taken opinions since the inception of the internet and made them fact with no regard to accuracy.

Thanks again.

 

[Bewy]

I would use that cam & lifters. It will be made correctly with good metallurgy.

 

[oldkimmer]

If u want this for a daily street driver as in town with a 3500 converter and at least 3.91 gears. It a cam for a highway cruiser. Kim

 

[Bewy]

Poly cams were sol & I believe early hemis were too...This cam is hyd.

 

[33IMP]

Poly cams were sol & I believe early hemis were too...This cam is hyd.

Gen 1 hemis were mostly hydraulic lifters, but the letter cars used solids. I think polys were either mostly or all solids.
I don't know enough about early hemis or 318 poly's to ID that cam.
But figuring exactly what it's for is probably a good idea.

 

[Max1196]

Poly cams were sol &

Not all of them

 

[oldkimmer]

My 67 Plymouth with poly 318 had hydraulic lifters. My 66 Dodge with poly was solid lifters. Up here in Canada we had the poly in 67 cars. But not in A bodies. Kim