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From: Daven Anderson
Email: l96lfury@springmail.com
Remote Name: 199.174.227.87
Date: October 02, 2002
It's nice to have a choice of hyd. or solid with Chris' cams,which is another point in their favor I forgot to mention. Modern hyd. cam profiles are better balanced than the original hydralic OR solid profiles. Solid cams do still have the advantage of more possible lift for a given duration. A MODERN solid cam profile can be a real surprise. For instance,the MP 284º/".528" B-engine solid cam and the MP 284º/".478 B hyd. cam. In the same 440 engine with these same duration cams,the solid cam had 16 more hp and 40 lb./ft. more torque on the flywheel dyno! In the car,the solid cam had a great torque spread at all rpms,whereas the hyd. wasn't coming on till at least 2800 rpm. I think the 4-cyl "Super 60" specs of 260º with a massive .490" lift could be a really neat street poly cam (and that duration/lift ratio would require a solid grind,of course),especially if nitrous were involved...
