Street 360 W/.528" P.S. Cam
Bewy I will correct you. I have known you for close to forty years or more !
I do not deny that a tighter lobe seperation makes more power! What I am saying is it makes for a terrible lumpy driver of a car especially a manual. As you have always seen I like manuals and back in the seventies when I used to race you with my 340 six pack it had a 292 410 mopar performace cam in it. It idled really nice @ 650rpm and was really sweet on the road with six pack etc and ran mid to low thirteens back in those days and reved to over 7500 rpm.
I built my 410 about forty years later and liked the 292/ 410 cam so much that I got Keith to get me another one. Well I hated it as it would not clean up untill about 2500rpm.
What was the differencste? The old one had a 114 LSA and the new one had a 106 or 108 LSA. I tried a few different Hughes cams in it over the next few years and finally had a custom grind by Mike at B3 engineering design me a roller cam 238/242 @ fifty thou with 1.6 rockers to 610 lift on a 114 LSA because I wanted a nice driver with decent fuel economy and it gets the same 20mpg as my stock 318 Charger with my 410 manual with 3.91 gears.It may get more power with a tighter LSA but especially as we are not young kids anymore, a nice drivable car in traffic is way more important to me than a lumpy snarly pig that is hard to dive in traffic. Fair enough for you auto guys with a high stall converter it would not be that bad but I would not put up with a high stall converter and the horrific fuel economy as you will have noticed our fuel is over $2.50 a litre or $11 @ gallon at the moment!