degreeing a mopar cam

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o1heavy

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installing a mopar 292 509 cam shaft in a 360 having trouble
degreeing the camshft correctly
ran this cam for a long time without degreeing and the car ran really good

guessing with mopar performance history i should not skip this step

thanks for any help
 
GOOGLE is your friend:butthead:

http://www.iskycams.com/degreeing.html

http://www.compcams.com/Technical/Instructions/Files/145.pdf

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That should keep ya busy fer awhile:toothy10:
 
I think he's just looking to maxumize performance. He said it ran good.

If you have an engines book, it will describe how to do it there way. You may need the offset cams woodruff keys for this.
 
I like the Mopar Performance degree wheel while you're on this subject. It's a "180" degree wheel instead of a "360" degree wheel. In other words, it reads directly, instead of having to divide by 2 to get then end result. Just read the Mopar engine book. It's all in there. Lastly, I got to where I use a compression gauge to back up the degree wheel. I use the wheel, check cranking compression and if I think it can be improved, I'll go 2 degrees advanced and see if that makes a difference. I like getting cylinder pressure high because that's where power comes from. Some might say it would be advanced too much, but I've never had an adverse experience from doing it that way yet. While it may knock off a little power up top, it's never been enough to notice and it makes it come on like gangbusters on the bottom. All this hooah aside, that's a LOT of camshaft. It will bleed off a ton of cylinder pressure, as it is 248.5* @.050" grouns on a 108 lobe separation. It needs all the cylinder pressure you can throw at it. I had that same cam in my 65 Valiant with a 360. My static compression ratio was a blueprinted 12:1. I ended up installing that cam where I had 205 PSI cranking pressure. Yeah, it ran on 114 Cam2 but it ran low 11s too.
 
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