Seeing if this cam is good and if it will work
I’m just trying to get more power out of it for the street for a little more fun. The engine has 50000 original miles and hasn’t been bagged around. It has no problems with it. It’s a solid engine. I’m just stuck on what to do to begin the build
Do the heads.
Not saying you have to Chances Are you don't or only need a couple but you can buy brand new valves on e bay for 100 bucks
Have the guides replaced/ knurled or whatever the shop seems best and hard seats a must. Compare the price diff of good enough to best and let your wallet decide.
Figure out what head gasket you would like to use, find its thickness -.006 to find its rough compressed thickness ex fp8553 perma torque around .046 compressed
1008 are a stated .039, 541/519sd around .o52-.o54 and so on.
It's about .0053 per cc on the open chamber 318 heads.. so check a chamber on each head or tell us the casting # and sometimes we know.. ex. 675 casting=68cc
920/234 closed around 66cc +/- 'they seem to vary'..and later heads can be as big as 72cc, just like a 360 head.
So figure out what head you have if ya haven't..and go from there. My advice would be not to go much smaller than 62 cc. Just factor in the new gaskets thickness minus the originals .019-.021 thickness to know what you are ADDING to the thickness and need to compensate for when milling. ..and remember if you were to rebuild this engine...you would be pulling the heads anyways , so if you see damaged cylinder walls or a big Ridge... it's no big deal ...just continue pulling it apart.