tinman

I don't think that cam with those pistons will be a good 'street engine' combination.
Compression will be to high, cam duration to long. Plus the cam is a flat tappet.
I think that you should re-think the whole thing........

Portmaster

Look for some bent valves in all liklyhood. Why are you so intent on the use of this cam? Even if you got away with no piston to valve clearance the car will be an absolute pig. It will bleed off so much low end cyl pressure that it won't pull itself out of it's own way and then once the cam really comes into it's own the heads won't come close to supporting it. It's a race cam and an old grind at that. It's time that cam went to heaven. If you put that cam into your stock engine it won't make more than 210-220 hp at the crank and about 230 lbsft torque at the crank. So figure in a 15% driveline loss (and thats being generous) and you end up with around 180hp and 185lbft of torque at the wheels. The worst thing is that you won't even see those numbers get over 100 until you you get past 2500 rpm. The torque curve on that engine will look like a roller cam lobe. So if you want to pull off from a stoplight in a 68hp Mustang with 85lbs feet of torque at the rear wheel just throw that baby in there.

AdderMk2

yea, it IS the same cam

and it would be stupid of you to run that in your car

fast stang15

ok i also have a b cam would that be the way to go?

AdderMk2

no

letter cams suck

fast stang15

well it is all i got. so should i use it for now.

AdderMk2

omg wtf did I just say

NO

****ing dip****

Portmaster

It's like eating chinese food. You order Chit You eat Chit. If you can't afford a decent cam stay out of the engine. If you want a decent cam for little money buy a Trick Flow Stage one cam. 164.95 from Summit here's the link

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

Portmaster

Can you be a bit clearer on what you are trying to say, lol

BlessedHellride

Pistons I used: http://store.summitracing.com/partde...8&autoview=sku

These are what I was talking about as far as a small dome piston for the street. They are what I had in my old 85 GT I had for a couple of years when I was in my early 20's. I pulled the engine out of my 1983 F-150 and it had been rebuilt a couple of times so the last time I built it, I had to go .060" over to clean it up. I ported the stock 83 heads as best I could back then. I had a Summit cam kit in the old turd too. It was a 5 speed car and would rip off upper 13's @ a little over 100mph. That's the car I stuck the 28" x 10.5" M/T slicks on turbine wheels under it. I had a Edelbrock Torqer II intake with a Holley 600 on it. I had Mac 1.750" long tubes with 2.5" exh. all the way to the back. Stock rods with aftermarket bolts and stock crank shaft. It was by far one of the best running cars I had ever built. Not the best performer, but it ran as good as a brand new vehicle. I can't tell you how many T-5's I tore up in that thing. Hell I was young and dumb. I didn't care about breaking parts as long as I had the money to fix the car. It started to get hard to find a T-5 around my house by the time I got rid of that old car. That was over 10 years ago and folks still talk about that car around the house. Sometimes I wished I could forget it.

This is the crappy cam kit I used: http://store.summitracing.com/partde...1&autoview=sku