Cam/crank timing (was RE: american vs canadian polaras)

["Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I'm reposting Don's mail with a new subject line in case it was missed. 
I'd like to hear what folks think about this. 

Anyone?
 
Thanks,
Gary H. 

Don_Dabbs wrote:
> 
> This may be off the subject of what you guys have been talking about but 
> maybe you can give me reason for this...  I am or was wrench to a friend 
> that ran max wedges and hemi's .. I am a BB chevy guy and kept this 
> friends cars in my shop eventhough we ran against eachother after the 
> class racing stopped.    My friend had long converted his max wedge to 
> 440 ( to stay up) and I one time applied some chevy cam phasing to his 
> 440.   much to my surprise when I dialed this thing in on a degree 
> wheel, I was so amazed at how far the cam / crank timing was off.  If I 
> recall correctly, it was some 14 degrees retarded,  according to the 
> dial indicator and wheel.   Normally he changed cams and just lined up 
> dots and got it together... But when I put a wheel on it ,,14 degrees 
> off got my attention.. so far that offset key ways would not correct nor 
> did I have enuff bushings or room on the cam gear to correct.   Called 
> his buddy at Hale Performance in Ark,,, told me to just rotate the cam 
> gear until I got close and then dial in with bushings!,Never heard of 
> such but it made sense.. so that I did ,  and we ran heads up from then 
> on in the low 10's .   Did we just have a bad set of gears?  Is this 
> normal?  Anyone ever do this with same results?   End of story.  
> 
> Thanks
> Don Dabbs

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