Monday, a guy brought me a cam card....
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Monday, a guy brought me a cam card....
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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%?"
"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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Really, I've never seen one listed.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
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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Mike, look at flathead fords in your isky link. They show 3/4 and full race camsCamKing wrote:Really, I've never seen one listed.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
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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Re: cam
LOL that brings back memories..........I remember a kid tell me he had a "3/4 quite camk-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