302 build need advice

[travism12576]

im deep in confusion.bought a motor from a guy says it was a 87 302 h.o. its indeed 87 302 h.o by the piston numbers. the guy also said it had a b303 cam in it. me and my dad are rebuilding the motor i pulled the lifters off marked them so on so on. pulled the cam out and before the last elbow it has 8Z then on the very end it has b|r then c another c another c b10. going all around the camshaft end. where if it was b303 wouldnt it state b303?
i dont have a dial indicator to measure it until i can go back to my work.

my car is a 93 lx 5.0 t5 going with 373 or 410 gears.1.6 svo roller rockers going to be street car and sometimes strip. im converting to carb. running gt40p heads ford racing headers, edelbrock airgap intake, msd6a box,trickflow upgraded springs for heads.650 holley double pumper carb holley blue fuel pump with adjustable reg

my question is should i just not worry with the cam and get a different one? i got $300 to spend and dont want to spend no more than $200 on a cam. any idea's for my build?i want to take car to atleast 6000rpm

 

[elarm1]

Couldnt tell you what cam that is.... Spend the money on a trick flow cam. You will be smiling with your setup

 

[travism12576]

thats kind of what ive been thinking.. been eye balling the summit site all day looking at the tfs 1 cam. $180 now looks like it went up since my friend bought one awile back. will i be able to use my old lifters if i put them back in the right spot? and how well would that cam do with the air gap intake and the rpm ranges of the intake and cam. also what would be better for it the 373 or 410 gears?

 

[Rick 91GT]

I can save you some money on the cam...the TFS1 is a decent cam, I like some other grinds better with that combo but they are over your $200 budget.

 

[NIKwoaC]

Even if you could prove it was a B cam, I'd still throw it straight in the garbage. Well, maybe not, it might make a good door stop, or you could saw it into a few pieces and use them as paper weights.

The cam is a bad place to pinch pennies on, just $100 can be the difference between an obsolete shelf cam and a nice custom piece. The cam in my car was about $300, and it is a custom one-off piece ground by Comp, designed specifically for my application. Once you have the car back together and you drive it for a week, you'll have completely forgotten about that $100. That's barely enough to get you 2 full tanks of gas. Spend the extra money, you won't regret it.

Talk to Rick, or any one of the custom cam grinders out there (Bullet, Cam Motion, Ed Curtis, etc.), these guys will hook you up.