Re: Cleanin Parts...how fun

["jsteph22" <jsteph22@xxxx>]

Isky is a well known company indeed, ran isky cams in a C/MP Ford (66 
Fairlane 427 side oiler) in the late 60's. I don't know about their 
modern hydraulic cams, but high lift and high spring pressures on the 
old solid lifter grinds wore the hell out of the cam lobes. Cam 
wouldn't last a whole race season. Crane or Engle cams worked best 
for me for race applications. At least they lasted all year.

Crane tech service offers a cam select program where you feed them 
the information for the performance level you want to achieve and 
they will make a pretty solid recomendation. They take all aspects 
into consideration, gear ratios,tire size, engine mods, power accys. 
especially brakes, and other real world items to make your ride 
perform efficiently and safely.

These days people tend to over cam their engine for the actual use of 
the vehicle. I know some guys and gals for that matter who would 
select a cam with gobs of lift and unreal amounts if duration for a 
engine that they expected to use on the street. Horsepower gains 
did'nt show up till 3500 rpm, hell that's almost 80mph in my car. 
They sounded so good a real gear head could have a sexual experience 
hearing them run. BUT the dam thing would die at every stop light 
unless you kept one foot on the brake and the other in the throttle. 
Vacuum was almost non existent and tuning the carb was a real B---h. 
I learned a long time ago to use the tech line and let the pros, who 
know how to cam an engine, make the recommendation for a high 
performance street engine. Then if you elect to pick the spec's 
yourself you can only blame yourself. Been there done that many times 
over. Threw away some and lied about the others! Just from 
experience 
iaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxx> 
wrote:
> I would highly reccommend Isky cams for your cam shaft. They custom 
ground me a cam for 140.00 bucks including shipping. Got my lifters 
from summit for 43 bucks. If you call them with your specs the will 
make sure you get exactally the cam you need. I was impressed with 
their tech support.
> Davis 
> 
> jsteph22 <jsteph22@xxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, you're starting to smell like a real mechanic with that 
solvent 
> on your clothes. Aint it heaven!LOL I will give you the cam info 
> tomorrow so we can get it ordered. 
> 
> --- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "lumina333" <lumina3@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > My new parts washer is no longer new. I never knew how difficult 
it 
> > was to scrub the crud out of bolts, nooks & crannies. Thank God & 
> Dow 
> > chemical for solvents! However the parts sure do look good after 
a 
> > fresh coat of AMC blue. Nice to see the parts numbers cast into 
the 
> > components appear also. Most of my engine parts have a '76' on 
> them. 
> > Brings back memories of the bicentennial year of this country. I 
> got 
> > worn out on the constant, over-publicized bicentennial 
celebrations 
> > that year, now it seems so historical! (Dam, am I getting THAT 
> > OLD????!!) Getting ready to order a Camshaft. It is fun deciding 
> how 
> > I want the engine to respond when looking at the cams available. 
> > After a very dry month, we are having rain tonight. At least it 
> will 
> > keep the pollen down; all our cars here have turned yellow over 
the 
> > past couple of weeks. The azaleas and dogwood trees are blooming 
> now ?
> > I do love springtime! ?Lu-
> 
> 
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