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Mattax said

I'll be honest. I think that cam is way too much for that.
I'd approach it this way.
See what the heads flow. No point in any more lift of the valves than will gain air.

To me, old school street/strip would be a flat tappet, probably mechanical, and iron heads. Prob something like the old purple shaft series or Racer Brown. For something newer designs, maybe Lunati or Mike Jones.
You planning to gear this so its in the 3000 - 7000 rpm range most of the time? even on the street?

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The heads i sort of plan to use is a old set of J heads that have lived with that size cam before so no worries there i would be much more worried about if i can actulay bring them back to life from their current state of abuse for a reasonable amount of money.:/

Nope im not ever going to go flattappet again if i can avoid it and i do have two sets of lifters,one brand new and one used set so a solid roller is pretty much set in stone ;)

The whole idea is pretty much to do what alot of people claim is stupid just to show that it can be made to work sort of its the old way of adding cam and compression to an engine with not so great heads and small displacement.

Oh yes there will be plenty of gear and converter given time.
Plan is to start out with my old converter that should stall about 32-3500rpm and 3.91:1 gears but i figure another 1000rpm converter will be much better and alite more gear later on.
Running 3000+ rpm on the highway when going longer distances is ok,driving around town is so much stop and go anyway so cruiserpm is not all that important at lower speeds anyway i have driven with big cams before and its ok crusing under the rated rpm range at lower speeds but it would be terrible at 70rpm.
I cant help it but i miss that high rpm big cam engine to much to ignore it.

I do appreciate you consern,it is very valid!