.480/230 cam in an 8.5 CR 360?

RustyRatRod said

He seems pretty bent on using the cam, which is fine. It can be made to run really well leaving compression right where it is. The problem is, you cannot convince people of that. Yeah, it'll make more power with more compression, but I just bet it's not worth the extra money spent.

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I’m convinced it will run relatively well.

But this forum and multiple others are FULL of guys complaining about “soft bottom end” and things like that.

It’s rampant.

I’m not a Freiberger type who thinks just getting it running is the cats ***. It may be if you are building multiple cars for a tv channel, but for something you want to drive and not keep screwing with you fix it.

In the grand scheme of things a change of cams is relatively inexpensive. It’s far cheaper than trying to get the compression up.

I don’t step over donuts to grab a dog turd, isn’t my way.

Just because you have something doesn’t make it worth using.

Next up, the OP will need a different converter and more gear to get it correct.

I looked at what rolling the cam to a 103 ICL. The overlap triangle gets murdered.

You can do it, but if the OP found something with 10 less degrees duration and put the LSA at 106 he’d be far better off IMO.