Cam advice or input
Well, I'll put this out their. Asymmetrical camshaft lobe designs, really look into some of the past research done by Harold Brookshire (UltraDyne -current Bullet Cams-, Comp Cams, Lunati Voodoo series). The Asymmetrical lobes in common-terms, allows the valve to be seated more gently than it was opened. This is what you're looking for in a street engine. I'm not going to recommend a camshaft (my version of street may be very different), but in my opinion,
take advantage of the airflow of those cylinder heads. You're getting very little out of them with a .480" lift camshaft.
An older post from Harold;
Symmetrical vs assymmetrical(or unsymmetrical) lobe designs......
I think the last symmetrical lobe designs I did were in 1976...... Many of them are still being sold today, and they work OK(not BEST, or I would still be designing them...).Assymmetric cam design merely means that the opening and closing sides are designed differently. You can open fast, shut slow, or you can open slow, shut fast.
I got my inspiration for unsymmetric cams from Racer Brown, who didn't do them,AFAIK. He wrote an article in the mid-60s about Toyota engines, in which he noted that cams that opened and shut the valve very fast made great power, but were brutal on parts. He also noted that cams that opened and shut the valve much slower were very stable in high RPM and didn't break parts, althought their low-end power was down.
I quickly identified shutting the valve hard and fast with breaking parts, and shutting the valve slower with less parts breakage and better high-RPM stability. Tying fast openings and slow closings seemed to me to be the best of both worlds, but it was at least 10 more years before I designed and made my 1st unsymmetrical cam lobe. This cam was the Comp Cams 324-4(I believe, I don't have a CC catalog available..), 324° at .020, 286° at .050, .4544 lobe lift---They still sell that lobe today. It turned 11,000 with ease back in 1977-1978.
My 1st unsymmetric hydraulic was the 268 High Energy cam, 268° at .006", 218° at .050", and .454" valve lift.
What I have said since 1977 is that by delaying the opening of the intake port, reversion(exhaust gas being pumped out by the rising piston on the exhaust stroke) is minimized, compared to a cam with an earlier opening. Because this reversion is minimized, when the piston starts down on the intake stroke, the lessened reversion cleans out of the intake portearlier, and starts airflow earlier. Would YOU let your opponent in a drag race have a .1th head start? What about a .25th?
Although I use very fat cams at high lift, this isn't actually a part of unsmmetrical cams. But because the properly-done unsymmetric cam has a higher port velocity, a fatter-duration cam in high lift area has MORE time to fill the cyclinder, and is filling it at a FASTER rate.
Shutting the valve gentler helps ensure aginst valve bounce, and the corresponding release of cylinder pressure back into the intake runner. It also helps parts life.....
I will try to answer more tomorrow/today. I have only Saturday and Sunday every week at home, The last 5 weeks have been spent in Bowling Green at Corporate HQS, learning how to fill out forms like a proper engineer.
There are also gains to be had with unsymmetric cams as exhaust lobes, and the two, intake and exhaust, work together very well.
I will see you all tomorrow....