Well after two years building on a super tight budget I made my first passes in my small block Chrysler powered FED in nearly 30 years and Killed the engine. It's a long story and one I won't bore you with but now I'm piecing a motor together mostly from what I have kicking around. I have a block with some wear but it's @ .040 same as my pistons So I've had it tanked new cam bearings fitted and honed. I've put a set of bolts in some factory rod and had them resized, and I've had a crank ground. I have to clean some metal out of the piston skirts with wet and dry - fingers crossed. My old "J" heads are OK and I will use the same old Vertex. To get the car and myself sorted I'm going to take my injection off and go with a 750 DP initially. Now I need a cam and lifters. My heart lie's with a good old fashion solid lifter set up but I'm xxxx scared of loosing cam lobes now that engine oils are all messed up. All I want to do is run high 5's on the eigth at some relaxed country tracks. Now I run with no electronics and no trans brake so it's really hard to get any revs up on the line on the brake because the car wants to creep/drive at much past 2200. The converted isn't ideal but it's a 9" that stalled at 5000 in a Dart. Now I'm looking beyond the engine only, rather the whole package and I'm asking what would people think if I put in a Hyd cam around 260/270 degrees @ .050" and used the V-max adjustable lifters from Rhoads that wash off some lift and duration unit around 4,000 rpm to help me off the line but still let me see 6500 - 6700 or so in the top end. It's effectively VVT set up so I cam use a big HYD stick. Any ideas
