318 la head vs magnum head swap help

Rockerdude said
Im swapping an la 318 with 1.88 J heads that haven't been milled so it is around 7.7 to one compression to a Magnum 5.2, the la has that crane cam in it and its garbage performance wise. I had my magnum cam reground almost exactly to the first specs you listed (112 lsa vs 114, 224 vs 227 duration at .050, and 496 lift with stock magnum 1.6 rockers). Hoping for a noticeable difference from my last cam in my low comp 318.

well, your comp. probably wasn't helping the cam much, but thanks that was all i needed to hear, the crane cam thought is gone now LOL. the specs on the crower make it seem like it would be a pretty good cam for the setup, it would be around .498 lift with the 1.6's.. i read somewhere once that magnum heads tend to like straight pattern cams because of their exhaust port design and flow.