all cammed up

[flaminranger]

I haven't been on in a while but I actually did something to the truck.
I installed the cam I picked up about 8 months ago.
and the verdict is .... it wasn't worth the hassle. It made more power but it did so higher up in the rpm's.
As for doing the work it was easy. it only took about 5 hrs to do the cam and timing belt.
the cam is a 260 duration with .410 lift and it is a 114 lobe sep.
it is kinda funny sounding as it has a small lope @ idle.
one benefit is that @ freeway speed I can accelerate in 5th gear. which was an impossible feat.

 

[tomw]

Don't know if you have replaced your muffler yet, but you can get one from Advance for ~$20 that will bolt in place. It has enough flow for a 302, so should open up the 2.3 fine. I find there is more torque with it than with the original factory muffler. FWIW
Is the replacement a roller follower cam?
tom

 

[Mark_88]

I spent a beastly amount of money on a head and "mild racing cam" a few years ago...it actually did improve things considerably...enough to make me drive like a maniac and blow the bottom end out of it...

Did you do the bottom end recently? Someone warned me about it from this forum...said doing the top end and not the bottom would result in pretty much what happened...

 

[flaminranger]

As for the exhaust I already have 2 1/4 inch exhaust with a high flow cat,and a high flow muffler as well as the header off a newer truck that I port matched.
that is a rumor about changing the heads and not the bottom end. I have done that a bunch of times with no problems. the problem is when you up the compression when changing heads or when you do what you did and rev it too the moon which I might experience myself later on as well.lol

 

[flaminranger]

sorry I forgot to answer your other question.
it is a flat follower. it was free as well as new followers so that is what I used.
It ain't worth spending the money on a roller cam without porting the head and I don't want to take it that far.
plus I am going to put a v 8 in it soon.

 

[DJ2.3]

Those cam specs are a kinda interesting..... I am assuming the 260 duration is advertised and not @.050? Also the 114 deg LSA is kinda big for the amount of lift you got, which will raise the effective rpm range a bit. To really make the cam effective shave the head .050 or so to help keep your cylinder pressures close to stock. The 114 LSA will lower your cylinder pressures at lower rpms..... But if your guna do a v8 swap, them just run it as is.

 

[flaminranger]

yeah I realize the cam is not perfect for the combo but it was free.
I was told that a stock cam is a 116 lobe sep so a 114 is not too far off.
and yes it is 260 advertised. there was no cam card so I don't know what the .050 is.