Ford Cam Time... (Clearance)

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Alright, I decided I'm going with GT40 heads and a gt40 intake manifold. I'm gunna get both ported and polished to match. I don't have alot of money to spend for this so that's why I went with the GT40 stuff. Now I was looking on fords website and was looking at the CAMzillas. Will the valve clearance and such be okay with these? I wanna get the most aggressive cam I can without having clearance issues or anything else. Hopefully while still getting that lobing sound... Suggestions?

 

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what are the specs on the cam?

 

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Camzille has a 552 lift i/e IIRC.

 

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In this case I woulod look to do what mike did and pick a woleverine 1190. This cam gives you a lot of room for milling the heads (a lot). The cam itself doesn't make huge hp gains but that can be made up by milling the heads. You get CR hp instead of cam hp (hope that makes sense(sp?)

 

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wytstang said:

In this case I woulod look to do what mike did and pick a woleverine 1190. This cam gives you a lot of room for milling the heads (a lot). The cam itself doesn't make huge hp gains but that can be made up by milling the heads. You get CR hp instead of cam hp (hope that makes sense(sp?)

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The cam itself doesn't produce much hp but it gives you room to mill the heads to gain compression power instead. Make sense now...

 

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I would personally pick a cam that makes power with that given combo. Search around for peoples combo they have ran and go from there.

Dont just pick a cam cause it has big lift values...or it will "lope" nice.

How much do u plan on puttin into those heads with initial cost and porting?

 

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i could definalty feel a diffrence with the cam.... but i am forced, so i dont know what kind of diffrence you would feel from being N/A

i had no problems with .493 and .510 lift and 212/222 duration @.050 with gt-40 heads.........im about to find out if i can pull this cam off with 2.02/1.60 valves...
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What rockers are you running? 1.6's or 1.7?

 

Zero Signal

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Well for example, my heads were milled .010 or so for flatness which you should do with used heads. They have 1.56/1.94 valves after all the work (IIRC). With my cam I have just barely enough valve clearance with the stock pistons and 4° cam advance. Anything more will put it over the limit. My total lift is .533 Int/Exh with 215° duration on Int/Exh.