3/4 race cam...what the heck?
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Check out my sig please....I am still trying to decide on a cam. I was thinking something pretty big or maybe even a bit bigger...
Good thread I actually enjoyed this one, now I just gotta go get me a chip and I'm good to go
Good thread I actually enjoyed this one, now I just gotta go get me a chip and I'm good to go
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Originally Posted by 00LS1SS
Check out my sig please....I am still trying to decide on a cam. I was thinking something pretty big or maybe even a bit bigger...
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Originally Posted by JohnnyC
The 3/4 race cam was usually a fairly aggressive cam profile that had hydraulic lifters and was streetable-much like the cams that we install in our rides. The full race cam was very aggressive and was almost always a roller cam. For whatever reason, the term stuck with rednecks and lives on in this modern camshaft era.
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I work with a woman who's father was a well known flathead era cam grinder. I'll chat with her a bit to see if my recollections are the same as her's. Anyone remember Potvin Cams in SoCal? I do, but then that shows my age.
Andy1
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Originally Posted by Andy1
In the earlier days of the Gen I SBC era, nearly every 3/4 cam ran solids (lifters), as did the full race cams. Rollers were still in their infancy, and were not at all common. Also, a 3/4 cam in a carbureted motor had much different manners than that of a modern EFI motor, so it's hard to draw a comparison between the two.
I work with a woman who's father was a well known flathead era cam grinder. I'll chat with her a bit to see if my recollections are the same as her's. Anyone remember Potvin Cams in SoCal? I do, but then that shows my age.
Andy1
I work with a woman who's father was a well known flathead era cam grinder. I'll chat with her a bit to see if my recollections are the same as her's. Anyone remember Potvin Cams in SoCal? I do, but then that shows my age.
Andy1
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Originally Posted by 00LS1SS
Check out my sig please....I am still trying to decide on a cam. I was thinking something pretty big or maybe even a bit bigger...
Good thread I actually enjoyed this one, now I just gotta go get me a chip and I'm good to go
Good thread I actually enjoyed this one, now I just gotta go get me a chip and I'm good to go
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I had a guy ask me if my cam was a 3/4 or full race cam at the gas station the other day. He was in his 50's. I just told him the duration and lift and then said it was a cam with good low end TQ and peak #'s as well. I knew it was an outdated term. Didn't want to get into it with him. It was nice that he complemented my car and asked me about it.
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LOL, i was reading through some old topics and this came up... Nothing like reading this one to some Led Zeppelin Nobodys fault but mine, now thats bringing up some old school stuff right there!
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My auto mechanics teacher in high school (graduated in 2000) built a Corvette with a 1/2 race cam. I asked him what that meant, and he said he didn't know. I was 17 and I think I knew more than this guy. Same dude used brazing rods to add weight to his conrods for "balancing" and swore up and down that if you bored a 305 .030" that they ran awesome. Turned out that his 1/2 race engine that he thought was an old school LT1 was a 180 horse 8:1 wheezer that wouldn't outrun a sick *****. I'm so glad I had alternate means of education before going to tech school--I would have been laughed off campus.
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this is awesome i just read this yesterday and yesterday afternoon a guy told me "you must have a 3/4 cam in there" he watched me park in the parking lot at the grocery store and i was on the phone so i left it idling til i got off. when i walked in he said that to me, and i told him no sir' its a 228R and left him puzzled....lol
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this is awesome i just read this yesterday and yesterday afternoon a guy told me "you must have a 3/4 cam in there" he watched me park in the parking lot at the grocery store and i was on the phone so i left it idling til i got off. when i walked in he said that to me, and i told him no sir' its a 228R and left him puzzled....lol
^^Now thats funny right there!