L88 cam in L78?

[JoeG]

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[Pantera]

You will hate the L-88 cam. My LS6 on the street is dangerious when you get up to 5G in third it will try to go sideways with N-50's. You will kill clutches if you get caught in traffic for a short while. With the right mufflers and Idle set at the right speed it willsound good and run good. More cam is just too much maintance. I have raced a small block in SCCA B/P and all my competion would run these wild cams and unless we were on a huge track with very long straits I could run all over them. The first corner we went through I caught them and passed them. They could only pull me 2 or 3 car lengths down the straights. I had more low end power off the corners and I didn't break the valvetrain but once. I ran a chev Offroad flat tappet cam that was almost 1/2" lift. They had roller cams to get the lift they wanted. I hold the track record at Hallett Ok with this setup. All my competion broke the valve train regulary and let me win. They over engineered their cars and reliabality is the key to keeping a car alive to make it home. To finish first you have to first finish.

How would you feel about dropping a valve through your pistons and destroying your motor?

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[Born30YrsLate]

I'm still struggling between my "young self" where being able to rev the hell out of stuff makes me smile and what years of experience has taught you guys.....I do say that you guys are doing a very good job in getting me away from over doing my motor....I guess I'm the type of person that if I say I have a L-88 motor I want it to have all the parts to be one....I will be talking with a couple cam companies to get their input...I will keep you guys posted ---the motor will also be dyno tuned and have the distributor recurved for my specific set up....I think you guys will like where this is going... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]...
Thanks again......[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

[JLerum]

If you go after market try to find someone that really knows the cams from an engineering point of view. John Partrigde from Bullet Cams does a wonderful job. I have yet to hear something bad.

Bullet cams is the old Lunati group that left Lunati when Holley bought out the company. If you've been keeping an ear to the drag racing seen they have done very well. I know the cam card of Wayne's L-88 vette is a Bullet cam. Just a thought! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif[/img]

JIM [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]