cam choice

I've got Aussie heads and a CompCams 282S, a little more stout than the one you are proposing. I followed the formula proposed by Dan Jones, which yields 480hp, according to Desktop Dyno... I've got a Weiand Xcelerator, had the heads ported and flowed, the intake port-matched to the heads, and some other mods. I've got all the details in a file, e-mail me if you'd like a copy.

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Charlie McCall
1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985

Charlie thanks for the reply. Yeah the choice of cam isn't too wild, but I think it's a good compromise. I plan on having some head work and port matching done. I want to make sure I have plenty of vacuum for the brakes. I figure if I can get close to 400 hp and 400lb of torque I'd be happy.

Charlie, I also wanted to say .... nice car

The Pantera community has recently had a rash of distributor drive gear failures associated with aftermarket cams. The effect is, your good ol' iron distributor gear wears to nothing in as little as 5 miles of engine break-in! Obviously, this spreads abrasive slop throughout your presumably rebuilt engine. The cam grinder MAY replace the cam but probably won't pay for bearings, gaskets and labor... This wear has been associated with adding high-volume oil pumps & cam changes that have the cam gear ground wrong (or both), which is why I went with a Ford-SVO hydraulic flat-tappet cam for my street engine. p/n M-6250-A341, 292/302 degrees NOT at .050, w/.510/.536 lift. Figure on gaining midrange & top-end power & losing 2-3mpg with this cam. Hall & some other Pantera vendors are also authorized SVO dealers.