quote:Originally posted by 1Rocketship:Hello Doug; Appreciate you supplying the specs & real LIFE driving experience/characteristics of the cam you are using.quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
It depends on what you want the nature of the car to be.
Although mine is a street car I find this one nice for what I want. I would say that if you needed to drive the car to work and the grocery store daily (if you eat a lot) it is too much.
No worse then a motorcycle though.
It is border line for the Webers, but Webers are borderline lifestyle anyway?
It could be a very nice track cam. Numbers are all around where they should be to maximize the heads, exhaust and induction.
Camshafts are very personal and everyone will have their own opinion.
I like it, but I use the car differently then most.
http://www.compcams.com/Compan...s.aspx?csid=861&sb=2
http://www.compcams.com/Base/M...ytes/CompCams292.mp3
If you walk within 20 feet of the exhaust it will knock your cap off of your head because of the exhaust pulse.
The only other car that ever did that to me was one of the Shelby American, former, GT40 team cars.
Some will say that it is "one step over the line" but if you aren't living on or near the edge you aren't maximizing your life. I've been over the line for most of mine.
As Paul Simon once observed, "when something goes wrong, I'm the first to admit it, the first to admit it BUT the last one to know,
When something goes right, it's apt to confuse me, because it's such an unusual sight?"
Your mileage may vary.
Seems to check ALL the boxes I'm looking for.
The specs list it as a 6,500 rpm cam.
In your experience you have no problem revving to 7,500 rpms, am I correct in this statement?
Also, Is that cam available in a solid roller lifter application?...Thanks!...Mark
Check the Compcams webpage. Solid rollers are really intended as a race cam. Sure you can run them on the street but the valvetrain is complicated and overly involved for what a street car needs. Even for a sometimes track car.
If you want roller lifters, go with a hydraulic roller lifter cam.
The 294 cam I have has power into the low 7's but I'm not really your typical owner. The 282 solid is much more likely to be up your alley. It will go into the 7's too but that really is all in the valve springs.
GP made some pretty nice recommendations on hydraulic cams for the vast majority of usesers here.
I personally just prefer a solid lifter camshaft. I find them EASIER to deal with than a hydraulic using anit-pump up lifters, triple springs that needlessly wear the valvetrain, etc.
I have nothing against roller valve trains per se other than the more involved, the more parts can fail.
Most people would be very happy with driving what is essentially a hydraulic lifter Boss 351 everyday. Too many people are just getting sucked into the "romance" of running roller lifters, etc. They are building an engine that has capabilities that they likely will never use at all.
You need to match your components. First pick the heads. Then match your induction, cam, and exhaust to compliment them.
The fact of the matter is the vast majority would be perfectly happy with the power of a 10:1 2v engine configuration with a set of quiet exhausts.