Reply to "Feeling uneasy about my camshaft selection."

$200 sounds like a heck of a deal, almost too good? the thought of handing over a set heads to somebody to cut the pedestals makes me pucker, each head has to be indexed correctly twice, once for the intakes and then again for the exhausts. that's 4 set-ups, yeah $200 is a good deal. then there are guys that have heads where the machinist drilled through to the intake runner and the engine sucks oil through the threads. OK that can be fixed with long reach studs(better than shorter reach), thread sealer and shape the extra threads to the port roof ... fixed ... as long as they got the angles right on all 4 set-ups?

now consider that bolt down rockers don't suffer stud flex and are more stable than stud mount rockers w/o a girdle. common every day stud flex loses HP to stock rockers, all the glossy page ads in chevy-craft don't brag about that

the Street Dominator isn't 'out of the ballpark' to the application, it has reasonable sized runners for decent low speed operation but the open plenum introduces the opportunity to easily over-carb the engine. you may find that the engine has a hard time pulling the secondaries open but you also have some rear gear working in your favor. bottom line obviously the intake will run the engine and if that's what makes Dad happy then that's what it should be