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Old 04-08-2012, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by tcrist View Post
I understand that the cam and crank are seperate items but they are timed with each other. So I guess that means the rod journals on the crank are in the same spot on a 302 & 351. Be it 180° apart or what ever. So that means that TDC on all pistons for the 302 or the 351 reach their limits at the same time? I.E. the angle between the 1-5 rod journal and the 2-6 are the same on the 302 & the 351?

Ok, I am starting to confuse myself by my rambling.
I see what your getting at, and while I'm no engineer,the 351 came a few years after the 302 and was based on the 302,smae bore,just longer stroke,so they engineered the 351 based on the 302,that's why the camshafts are interchangeable........

I don't put much thought into it, the Ford engineers did that already......all I know it works....

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