Dandy Don, What is the car for?? Cruising ,racing, shows?? What find of power are you looking for. 400hp?500hp?600hp??? What fuel system are you running, Webers, Carb, (what size CFM's), Fuel injection? Head work? what compression are you running? Trying to stay with 91 0ctane? A little more info is neede before point you in the right direction. A hydro roller cam with about .600" is a good place to start. KCR also makes some custom cams that sound good and have good power bands. If this is a stroker motor you can run a bigger cam, if you are in the 390-428 range, I wouldn't go over a .620" lift cam and stay on the street. Either way you need to add a peroiler to the motor to stop dry starts on the motor. a bottle of EOS
oil supplement or Lucas additive would also help. Dry starts is what killed the roller cam or lifters. without pressure oiling the bearing in the lifters are hammered. You also have the .020-.030 valve clearance for solid lifters. This causes hammering of the lifters on the lobes of the cam also or the little bearing being worn out in the lifter body. Give some more info on what you want the car to do and power range.
Rick L. if you want to talk about this call me in the evenings after 8:00pm est time. 732-254-3536 Ps Your car is not this heavy, and the gearing is way too high unless you are drag racing only. 3.31 ratio for the rear to start or lower to a 3.07. Call me and we can talk. Yes I did stay at a Holiday Inn, 2 weeks ago for Run&Gun
