Crate 360/380hp

[KB360]

Has anyone pulled the cam out of one of these motors and gone bigger? My crate motor is as is from mopar with exception of hughes iron ram 2.02 heads. Wanting to go bigger on cam, but dont really want to mess with pulling heads for clearance between valve/piston. looking for experience on swap(clearance issues?) and if it helped.

 

[SRT_DSTRHOLC]

check the magazines out, i believe they did a intake, cam and carb change or something

 

[rumblefish360]

The problem with going to a bigger cam is that the retainer to head clearance needs to be checked and maybe clearanced for more lift on a stock head. Valve to piston clearance should not be an issue. MoPar uses the Federal - Mogul 116 Hyper-U slugs. There very much like the KB flat tops w/valve reliefs. How much it'll take in lift is beyond me.

BUT, IMO,taking off the head to check for a high lift cam is an easy ting to do and nutz if you don't. Simply spinning the engine to see if anything hits (By hand) is not good enuff. It's a cost issue of head gaskets vs. (Should there be a problem) head work, new valves, etc........