What cam should I get?

OldVart said
The cylinder compression test gives you the pressure value, in pounds per square inch, that is built up in the cylinder after a couple of sweeps of the piston in the cylinder bore - ie, cranking compression. This info is used to determine basically how well your piston rings and valves are sealing in your engine, and really has nothing to do with the actual final "compression ratio" of your particular combination.
The actual final compression ration of an engine is determined by careful measurement of several areas, including cylinder head volume (measured in cc's), depth of the top of the piston below (or above) the deck, head gasket thickness, deck height, etc. etc. Without knowing all of the variables involved, you can't determine your actual final compression ratio.
If you look on one of the bolts on the rear end housing, you should find a small metal tag with the gear ratio stamped into it. If the diffy has been apart before, the tag will probably be missing and you can do the driveshaft turns thingie to get a very close guess on the ratio. Hope this helps.

Yeah I didn't think that I could find the compression ratio just by the cranking compression alone. I knew that there was to many factors to concider. It was worth checking into. I however got the phone number of the fellow that bulit the motor from the one I bought the car from. His name is Bob and he builds motors for the guys who drag race and such up in NY. I tried calling him yesterday after I got off work and got no answer so I better try calling him on regular businsess hours. The previous owner told me that he can tell me everything I need to know about the little 273.

I had already looked at the rearend and could tell that someone has been in there before. It feels like a 4.10 but I'm not exactly sure. It dose not take long to go through the gears to get to speed I know that. I need to break down and get me a good tach. I will eventually pull the chunk out and find out the gear size.

Once I find out as much as I can about the motor and get the stuff wrote down I believe that everyone that has helped me so far will have a better knowledge of the car and make a better decsion on what cam size I can run. I do admit that I was going to throw to big of a cam in there and it would have been slow on take off. So I would like to have the"big cam" sound but I much rather have power over sound. Maybe I can get a happy medium.