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Reply to "Solid Flat Tappet Street Cam"

Hello Kirin

It is difficult to find solid tappet lobes with "street-able" major intensity. There seems to be little interest in grinding solid tappet street cams … or perhaps its the other way around, there's little demand for solid tappet street cams. The cam you expressed interest in has lobes with 35° major intensity, which I do not consider street-able, but they had the longest intensity I could find amongst the lobes in the Bullet Cams on-line catalog. I was reluctant to even post the topic.

Since I wrote this post I've found one solid flat tappet lobe in the Bullet Cams on-line catalog of lobes that has a longer "major intensity" (48°) and would thus make for a better street camshaft.

duration at 0.020 = 278°/278° 
duration at 0.050 = 230°/230°
net lift = 0.519/0.519 (0.033 lash)
50° overlap
114° LSA
Index ICL = 108° ATDC

230° duration at 0.050 is about the same duration as the factory Boss 351 (or phase 3 GT-HO). 0.519 net lift is a bit anemic by today's standards, but it is certainly more lift than the factory cam which had 0.477 net lift. Its a good 400 horsepower cam. Horsepower should peak around 6100 rpm.  This is the cam I would advise you to give consideration.

Order either cam from: Bullet Racing Cams
Olive Branch, Mississippi. Telephone: (662) 893-5670

The details for the Single pattern cam are:

Intake and Exhaust lobe (single pattern) = lobe #F278/319
ground on 114° lobe centers (114° LSA) 
Index the cam 6° Advanced (+6°)
Intake lobe mathematic center line = 108° ATDC

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