cam question

ltrripp11 said
it has the stock x heads and manifold.

The original engine from your 72 Duster shouldn't have X heads on it. Should have J heads. 69 was the last year for the X heads. If it has X heads you might want to do some checking to see if it's the original engine. Someone may have replaced it with an older 340 and it may be higher compression than you think. On the other hand just the heads may have been changed which won't affect compression.