Single or Dual Pattern Cam

YY1 said
The problem with the other 45 "318 cam" threads is that they all come to the same ridiculous conclusions:

1- use the stock .400 lift cam because nothing is better unless-

2- use a .500-.600 lift cam with .300 duration and get 4.56 gears and a 3500 converter or-

3- build a stroked 360 with a solid roller instead.

Seems like for any other displacement, there are threads with comprehensive analysis that lead to 3 or 4 good choices.

We had one 318 cam thread with some promise where a couple of very knowledgeable members started to do that type of analysis but for some reason it just stopped.

Although I have no experience with either and can't crunch the numbers to tell anyone why the math works or doesn't work with a stock or basically stock 318 setup (maybe assuming dual exhaust and a 600 CFM 4 BBL), my money is on either the Comp "256" XE (or Lunati equivalent) or the Summit 690x (which ever is the lower lift, split pattern).

So far the only real analysis I've gotten from members on those is that "they are smaller than the stock 340 cam", which is actually a positive, sine the 318 is a smaller displacement engine. My addition to that would be that AFAIK, both cams I mentioned are "more modern" grinds.

Building a 340 - 360 is fairly straightforward. 273 -318 are not that's why these threads go on forever and comes up with no conclusion but also why they get more views.

!st problem should build a 360 crowd starts and cause that argument, thing is their right but if someone wants to do a 318 there a very capable engine and that's their choice.

2nd is most are just looking for mild cam 4bbl and exhaust which your recommends are perfect, but you get not enough cr and displacement crowd talking them out of any mod.

3rd is if you want more power than the 2nd will provide, you got to do something about the heads and cr which most want to do on the cheap so it becomes a problem.

4th way is to build like it's a 340, with a little more gear and stall, which it becomes a pretty straightforward build.

And to the OP if this is for a 318 why the 108 lsa??