Cam recomendations

[dstrbdxp-AK]

Ive narrowed down a few per recommendation from the company reps, but I wanted to hear what your thoughts are.

Mild hotrodding/heavy footed driving. Summertime I tow atv's.

'67 Nova 396, 781 heads, crane gold roller top end, Edelbrock intake/carb, headers/X-over dual exhaust. Unfortunately I don't know the comp ratio, I'd have to pull the heads first and check the pistons, but I'd like to have a cam/lifters kit on hand.

Why am I swapping? Gonna do valve seals, check the piston specs, look at the cylinders, check the valves. Plus a lifter tap that won't go away.

Nothin too wild, nice and lumply, good pull thru 5k.

 

[4X4HIGH]

Ive narrowed down a few per recommendation from the company reps, but I wanted to hear what your thoughts are.

Mild hotrodding/heavy footed driving. Summertime I tow atv's.

'67 Nova 396, 781 heads, crane gold roller top end, Edelbrock intake/carb, headers/X-over dual exhaust. Unfortunately I don't know the comp ratio, I'd have to pull the heads first and check the pistons, but I'd like to have a cam/lifters kit on hand.

Why am I swapping? Gonna do valve seals, check the piston specs, look at the cylinders, check the valves. Plus a lifter tap that won't go away.

Nothin too wild, nice and lumply, good pull thru 5k.

You really need to know the compression ratio before you go throwing parts into it. Everything works together if you want it to perform nicely. You can install anything you want but if the cam, heads, induction, exhaust, CR don't match it won't make power.

 

[dstrbdxp-AK]

Unfortunately I didn't build it. I don't believe it to be anything higher than 8.5-9. Runs well on pump gas. All speculation, I'd have to measure everythin of course.

 

[4X4HIGH]

Unfortunately I didn't build it. I don't believe it to be anything higher than 8.5-9. Runs well on pump gas.

You didn't need to built it in order to figure out what the compression ratio is. All you need to do is pull the heads and CC the head combustion chamber, and the piston valve relief(s) or dome and then bring a piston to exact TDC and measure how far down the bore the top of the piston sits (deck height) and then know what head gasket you're going to use and you can figure out the CR from there. If you don't want to spend the time to figure it out then just throw whatever you want in there and hope for the best because that's all you'll be able to do.

 

[Seafarer76]

Also you can call Comp Cams help line to get a recommendation, but they are going to want to know the CR as well.