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Post  64GASSER August 5th 2020, 7:13 am

is it worth buying a custom cam .....73 engine 460 ,rebuilt block and heads.....8: 1 compression 95cc heads. Is there someone out there that can build me a "more power" cam?

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Post  rmcomprandy August 5th 2020, 9:53 am

64GASSER wrote:is it worth buying a custom cam .....73 engine 460 ,rebuilt block and heads.....8: 1 compression 95cc heads. Is there someone out there that can build me a "more power" cam?

For racing ... You have about a 1 in 10 chance that a catalog camshaft grind will be exactly correct for fitting your application; they might get close.

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Post  69F100 August 5th 2020, 5:38 pm

rmcomprandy wrote:
64GASSER wrote:is it worth buying a custom cam .....73 engine 460 ,rebuilt block and heads.....8: 1 compression 95cc heads. Is there someone out there that can build me a "more power" cam?

For racing ... You have about a 1 in 10 chance that a catalog camshaft grind will be exactly correct for fitting your application; they might get close.


Randy can build you a cam yes a custom built cam will give you more power it will be designed to your engine and setup.  Randy built me a cam for my 460 I had in my Ranger and it woke it up with just a cam up grade and flat top pistons took me from 7.80s in the 1/8 mile to 6.70s.
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Post  rmk57 August 11th 2020, 9:26 pm

That only proves you didnt make a proper choice in camshafts from the get go. I'm absolutely not doubting Randy's ability to grind a nice cam for 460 but a 1.10 second drop!  I'd be happy with a couple tenth's.

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Post  Mark Miller August 11th 2020, 11:25 pm

rmk57 wrote:That only proves you didnt make a proper choice in camshafts from the get go. I'm absolutely not doubting Randy's ability to grind a nice cam for 460 but a 1.10 second drop!  I'd be happy with a couple tenth's.

Sounds like he changed pistons and the cam!!

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Post  69F100 August 12th 2020, 11:40 am

Mark Miller wrote:
rmk57 wrote:That only proves you didnt make a proper choice in camshafts from the get go. I'm absolutely not doubting Randy's ability to grind a nice cam for 460 but a 1.10 second drop!  I'd be happy with a couple tenth's.

Sounds like he changed pistons and the cam!!


That's what I said l changed pistons with the custom cam l know he only asking about the cam my point is a custom cam for a given engine will most likely be a big improvement over a shelf cam
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Post  rmk57 August 12th 2020, 12:51 pm

Just curious what piston change you made. I take it you bumped up a couple points in compression.

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Post  69F100 August 13th 2020, 10:28 am

Yes I went to flat top pistons from the stock dish pistons I was running dove c heads home ported with a victor intake I was freshing up the engine and decided to change the pistons and cam. I called Randy and told him what I wanted to do and gave the specs of what I had ànd he designed the cam for me.
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