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Monday, a guy brought me a cam card....

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I had a guy bring a cam card to me from Erson. He wanted to know if it was a hydraulic or solid cam and what the rpm range would be.

I looked at it, saw the .000/.000 on valve lash, checked the durations and told him it was a hydraulic cam and that it would peak at around 4500-5000 on his 350 SBC.

He took the cam card back, looked at the lift (around .450") and said...

"Now with .450" lift, is that a 3/4 race cam?"

I didn't know where to start, so I just told him no. :lol:
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I'm glad i'm not the only one who gets the "special" customers,I think i've had at least one a day for the last two weeks.
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Ask them why they only want to run three fourths of a race and not the whole race. See what kind of a look they give you. :twisted:

Use to when customers would ask me to number their rods I would sometimes ask them if they wanted me to put a line under #9 so they wouldn't get it mixid up with #6.
:? Know what? Almost all would answer ...Yes.
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ROFL
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Ya..... It only gets worse from there, and all you can do is smile and shake your head
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Tell him is about a 29/64 cam.... :roll: :roll: :roll:
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When someone asks me if I can make them a 3/4 race cam, I say
"Sure. Do you want me to cut the front 25% off, or the back 25%?"
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I remember being a 16 year old kid at the Vo-tech school and all of us motor heads talking about the day when we could afford to get a 3/4 cam for our cars. Then one Monday morning one of the guys announced to the group that his brother just installed a 4 degrees over full cam in his 327. Man we were all heart broken knowing that we could never obtain that level of camshaftdom in our engines.

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Back when I had just started work at a gas station and knew NOTHING about engines, the grizzled veteran I worked with (he had been there for a whole YEAR), told me that a hi-po engine had a 3/4 cam, hi-domed pistons, and shorty rods.

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As teenagers with thoughts of hot rods and reading magazines,
We all thought a 30/30 cam was full race and a 3/4 was a little smaller.
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comp, crane(did), isky&crower all offer 3/4 race cams..i'll bet there are quite a few others that i dont know about. to these guys there "is" a 3/4 race cam, they're not dreaming
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gmrocket wrote:comp, crane(did), isky&crower all offer 3/4 race cams..i'll bet there are quite a few others that i dont know about. to these guys there "is" a 3/4 race cam, they're not dreaming
Really, I've never seen one listed.
Could you show me one?

http://www.compcams.com/Cam_Specs/Browse.aspx

http://www.iskycams.com/onlinecatalog.html

http://www.crower.com/misc/m_cat.shtml
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I walked into Lunati in 1973 and asked Dale Browning for a 3/4 cam for my 352. He said he didn't know what one was. I thought what is this guy doing selling cams!!!
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CamKing wrote:
gmrocket wrote:comp, crane(did), isky&crower all offer 3/4 race cams..i'll bet there are quite a few others that i dont know about. to these guys there "is" a 3/4 race cam, they're not dreaming
Really, I've never seen one listed.
Could you show me one?

http://www.compcams.com/Cam_Specs/Browse.aspx

http://www.iskycams.com/onlinecatalog.html

http://www.crower.com/misc/m_cat.shtml
Mike, look at flathead fords in your isky link. They show 3/4 and full race cams :wink:
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k-star wrote:I remember being a 16 year old kid at the Vo-tech school and all of us motor heads talking about the day when we could afford to get a 3/4 cam for our cars. Then one Monday morning one of the guys announced to the group that his brother just installed a 4 degrees over full cam in his 327. Man we were all heart broken knowing that we could never obtain that level of camshaftdom in our engines.

Keith
LOL that brings back memories..........I remember a kid tell me he had a "3/4 quite cam
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