summit cams?

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I have heard this cam in my nephews 442 with a chevy 350. It lopes and chops bad. This is at a 1,200 RPM idle too. Won't even run at anything less.

You'll for sure need a 3,000 stall & at least a 3.42 gear also. Keep that in mind.

Something else, what heads & compression do you have?? I hope something better than stockers or you're just wasting money on this camshaft.

A cam with this much duration wants RPMS to make power. If you don't have the compression to make up for loss of low-end power or heads to flow high RPMS, you'll be sorry.
 
going to be running vortec heads, probably ballpark 9.5 compression, 4.10's in a 9". will be going in a power brake only street/strip car that i dont care how streetable it is lol. mainly drive 5 miles to town, hang out, make noise, come home.
 
1st off, with Vortec heads you'll need new valvesprings to go that high on lift. They are only good for .470 stock. Your rear gear is good, compression is OK (10:1 would be better) but don't forget the looser converter.


My nephews combo was a 355 Chevy, 882 GM heads (not great) 10:1 compression, Summit .488/.510 234-244* cam, RPM dual-plane, Holley 650 carb.

It was in an '86 442 with stock 200-4r trans with a 2,800 stall & stock 8.5 rear w/ 3.73

It ran pretty good, but really pulled hard after 4,000 RPMS. But by 5,000 the stock heads were outa air. Idle sounded killer for a street car, but it had more bark than bite. His heads were what was holding the combo back from making serious power.

So, I hope you see what I'm saying about that size of cam. It might sound nasty, but if you don't have the matched parts to support its needs, you're dead in the water.

Vortecs flow pretty well, but if your budget allows I'd look for some DART Iron Eagles, Patriot, World, or for the best..... AFR.

It isn't all about "how streetable" the car may be, it's about how & where the engine makes its power. The cam you're looking at isn't big by racing standards, but it's plenty big for a street driven car. The lift isn't crazy, but the duration is plenty high. That's why you need good heads, high stall, gears, & compression. It will want to rev & have very little low-end torque.
 
i already bought a set of LS6 value springs and retainers (supposed to be good to .550'ish without machine work). I was planning on a 3500 rpm stall. RPM intake, and a 750 Holley Carb. Did he ever run it in a quarter mile or on dyno? They're is no extra money for aftermarket heads or summit would be bangin on my door with some brodix IK's or afr 195's.
Thanks for the info! would like to hear a clip of the nephews car if he ever took one
 
Sounds like you'll have a good combo. Vortecs are good budget heads.

No, my nephew never ran it on the strip, nor do I have a sound clip. 🙁
 
hope it turns out to be a good running little car, hoping for low 13's maby even some 12's. dont know tho...

anyone else have anything?
 
I ran that exact summit cam in a 79 Z28. I had a 400 small block with 8.5 to 1 compression and ran 12.78 in the quarter. I ran a 750 Carter AFB and 1 3/4 Summit headers. This was all back in 97. I ran .600 lift valve springs.

I also ran the performer RPM intake. It idled about 900 rpm and rough.

For chevy, this is an old school cam. It is the original cam that the edelbrock performer RPM cam was spec'd on.
 
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if your budget is depleted,just get a comp 262...you don't need springs or machine work on the vortec's

that cam with vortec's and a 750 mighty demon and super victor will get you into the 12.'s

now this cam is so tame that your competition won't hear you coming :twisted:

but if you want to set around with your buds and b/s numbers on lift and stuff instead of out running them,go ahead and put that bottom of the page cam in.....jesse
 
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