No, I meant what I said. I said it that way, BECAUSE gross lift will be short because of the pushrod angle. In other words, it will be short the CALCULATED gross lift when including the rocker ratio. I left "all that" out for the sake of discussion, since "we don't know" what "all that" is since discussion of rockers and rocker ratio was not involved. Get it?
I've never seen this in print in any publication anywhere at all. That includes all of my OLD Hustle Stuff books, all of my Direct Connection literature and all of my Mopar Performance information. Can you supply a source for this?
Ok, you got me. So I said it wrong. THE PUSHROD ANGLE WILL STILL KNOCK SOME OFF TOTAL LIFT WHICH WAS MY POINT. Ok?
.....and thanks for the camshaft info. That's something I've either missed all these years (very likely) OR has not been in print in any of my literature (less likely).
I've seen a lot on here do it and some come back whining about how noisy their valve train is. I promise you that you can find my advice and a sctna handful of others advising against it, yet "us few" got argued into oblivion by those "who know better". All I know is, I love the way the Crane Fireball runs and sounds in the Ford 400 in Gladys. LOL Old school goodness at its best.
Old school that works for fun on the street. I sold many of those for $49.95. There's a lot of threads that start out about a nice running street small block and often end up building a maximum horsepower mill. Frustrating.
I saw where you made a post about....what was it? TRW I think? cams? THey had LOTS of cams back in the day and some pretty good ones. TRW, Melling, Sealed Power and on and on.....and BACK THEN their grinds were all "a little" different. Now, all those generic cams are all the same grinds. But you're right. I sold a lot of them too about that price point and they always worked. I don't remember anyone wiping lobes. Ever.
Yes, we had TRW parts, some of the best around. Their TP cams were a lot of fun. I mentioned a 300°/.500 lift HFT that was an animal back then. I worked there when we picked up the Comp Cams line. It was good stuff back then. Yep, no flat lobes or bad lifters.
Yeah, that was it. I also lump General Kenetics and Alliance in too. Never had a single problem with any of those and we ran a ton of them on the dirt track. I always wonder WHY guys back then bought Crane, Comp or any other main stream brand, because they weren't winnin anymore races than we were.
The Hemi Darts also favored Racer Brown cams
Love to hear those stories. Never a guess as you whether the parts were good. Lots of heavy hotter stock car engines were built with TRW parts.
not on the street
332 duration. The valves were open most of the time. It's a wonder you had enough compression for combustion.
332 duration. The valves were open most of the time. It's a wonder you had enough compression for combustion.
And how many times have you seen the "experts" on here say the 340 cam is WAY too big for a 318? It's like anything else. Match the combo and it'll run.
