Stroker specific cams (Part 2) cam reveal

Yeah, I know what you meant.

Hughes should be issued a Nobel Prize for bullshit marketing. I bet they've sold 500,000 cams and put all of their kids through college on it.

It's bullshit because it presumes several factors as 'gospel' when they are hardly that.

It presumes that the engine will run better with a more aggressive profile. Maybe it will, but you can be sure sometimes it won't.

It eats into margin on the approach, eating into margin is an old trick that might do some good (see above) but it also means you're pushing things harder than before. In other words, you're closer to the edge. There's always risk in that. Mathematically, the difference between a .904 body and an .842 body is very small when it comes to approach radius.

It presumes the profiles developed by major companies like Comp Cams, Crane, etc. were derived as a result of them running into the limits of the lobe and having no other choice than to be 'less aggressive' than they'd like. Maybe they stopped because they weren't at any limit but rather they found that's where the best power was.

It ignores that high-end Mopar end small block engines often use Chevy-diameter lifters intentionally....if there were 5HP to be gained by staying with the .904 lifter you can bet they'd do it.

What Hughes should say, if they were being straight shooters, is: "We've developed some aggressive profiles that take advantage of the larger .904 lifter body; this tiny difference might or might not benefit your application."