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Re: Looking for cam selection help



I was thinking the same thing on the converter.

  Gary F.



On 9/18/12, Jason Rhoades <Jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You might consider a 2500 rpm stall converter to match up with that
> configuration. Ask a professional converter company of course!!
> Just my penny.
>
> Sent from my Motorola ATRIX™ 4G on AT&T
>
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: Gary Futrell <gary.futrell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 22:01:01 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: Looking for cam selection help
>
> I've been thinking about using a Mopar Performance 484 cam for my 63 Sport
> Fury . Don't know how everyone else does with this cam ?  It's a stock 73
> 440 with forged crank. I have a ported set of milled 906 heads to increase
> the CR. I will probably run 3.55 gears.
>
> By the way , found another 65 BB 727 today to go with it. Went ahead and
> grabbed it since they're not so easy to find.
>
>
> Gary F
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, Bill Parker wrote:
>>  -------Original Message-------
>>
>>  Yah, the piston people asked me that question and I wasn't sure what to
>>  say.  My son wants me to build an E85-only motor and suggested a CR of
>> 13.5
>>  - 1 ... but I don't think I want to do that.  Others have suggested 10 -
>> 1.
>>  The piston folks say they can build me whatever CR I want.  So perhaps
>>  this needs to be changed to a question about CR ... so I could use some
>>  help here as I have no idea how to figure that out.
>>
>>  I have a 3:55 gear in the backend, my tire size will be different than
>> what
>>  they are now ( haven't decided for sure yet ), and I don't know the
>> exact
>>  weight of the car.
>>
>>  Jeez ... this is harder than when I picked out the cam for my poly ...
>> just
>>  used what Gary P said to use :-)
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Brian
>
> Running a mostly stock '64 413 ahead of a 4 speed and 3.23 gear in my '62
> Belvedere 2 door sedan around '73 or so, I put in an advertised "280 degree
> .480 lift" Crane cam.  Flat top pistons, headers, mostly running a single
> 750 AFB.  The cam was probably a bit too small and the gears too.  I tried
> 4.56's for a bit and that sucked, I was driving between Ft. Campbell and
> here on some of my days off to hang with the family.  The car ran great,
> nearly as smooth as stock, but I always felt like I left some on the table.
> It was my daily driver right  I joined the army, and then saw the occasional
> street race on US 41A between Ft. Campbell and Hopkinsville, but no formal
> racing.
>
> The engine for my current '62 is a 413 max wedge block which had been bored
> out to 426 .030 size.  (440 someone mentioned would be .140 over I think,
> probably impossible).  The machinist  going over it said the pistons were so
> loose that I would have some rattle but it would live for cruising duty.  We
> talked to Indy cylinder head right up the road about maybe cleaning up the
> bores to go 426 .040 over, they said they would waste my money on sonic
> checking if I insisted but don't do it.  So....I sprang for the sleeves back
> to stock 413, and had Ross custom make pistons.  The stock '62 max wedge
> heads have 87 cc chambers and my chambers checked out within 1 cc
> throughout.  The car is (according to Darrell Davis info) originally a
> 13.5:1 car, but I just didn't want to do that, I wanted to be able to cruise
> some, a little bracket racing, etc.  So I asked them to build the pistons to
> make a static CR of 10.5:1.   BTW those were $830 several years ago, I sold
> the 426 domed pistons to a list member to help out some on that.  Its a 3
> speed T-85 car but I got it (from Roland Osborne) with a four speed in it,
> and the original 3.91 rear axle.  Tires 275R60X15.  It had headers when I
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