What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

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What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#1 Post by prostude » Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:53 am

looking for some ideas on what cam to run in a 383 6-71 street strip setup

was running a mile .485 lift 300 duration hydraulic flat tappet in a 350 that made a ton of power for what was in it

ran a few blower cams on the engine analyer pro software and really did not see much of a hp increase
looking for maybe cam specs and 1/4 times

I was running a 10.80's with a 350 and the above listed cam in a 3400# street car
Street car Old motor 10.80 @122 1.49 60' 355 6-71 stock gm heads stock rocker arms block hugger headers 1-5/8"x2.5" collector
the car ran in the 9's in the 60's with an olds motor.

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#2 Post by sc68z28 » Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:26 pm

Mine is a 383, Procharger combo, @ 15 psi boost went 9.20 et, also 3400 lbs.
I don't know much about cams so I just went with an off the shelf Comp blower cam.
Solid roller #12-704-8, specs here... http://www.compcams.com/Company/CC/cam- ... d=309&sb=2
I have 1.6 rockers so lift is actually .613 - lash.

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#3 Post by prostude » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:22 am

sc68z28 wrote:Mine is a 383, Procharger combo, @ 15 psi boost went 9.20 et, also 3400 lbs.
I don't know much about cams so I just went with an off the shelf Comp blower cam.
Solid roller #12-704-8, specs here... http://www.compcams.com/Company/CC/cam- ... d=309&sb=2
I have 1.6 rockers so lift is actually .613 - lash.

Hope this helps. ---Bill.
damn thats flying with a 383
I was running junk head no roller rockers etc.
looking to update to a set of heads but do not want to go broke either
Any more info you can give me either in a PM or here would be much appreciated
Street car Old motor 10.80 @122 1.49 60' 355 6-71 stock gm heads stock rocker arms block hugger headers 1-5/8"x2.5" collector
the car ran in the 9's in the 60's with an olds motor.

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#4 Post by Moparious Maximus » Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:48 pm

Blower motors (usually) like a little more lobe separation (like 112 or 114*) and a little more duration on the exhaust side. Other than that pick a cam like you would any other motor, RPM, CID, USE...ect.

Cam manufacture's can be really helpful, although they do tend to stay on the safe side of things.
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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#5 Post by sc68z28 » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:04 pm

prostude wrote: Any more info you can give me either in a PM or here would be much appreciated
Got your PM, I do not mind discussing my combo in open forum.
My heads are out of the box Dart Pro1 aluminum, 230cc runner, 72cc chamber, 2.08/1.60 valves.
The block is just a GM 70's 010 with splayed caps. Also the heads/block are O-ringed.
I did not build this engine myself it came from Speed-o-motive as a long block.
Here is a link to the parts list they use http://www.speedomotive.com/ps-172-69-c ... ngine.aspx
What they do not tell you (but I found out later) is that the 4340 crank and rods are "made in China", and the so called "EXPERT BLUEPRINT ASSEMBLY" looks more like IMHO, just put together. I found several problems, rocker arms hitting springs, push rods rubbing against heads, wrong valve springs at the wrong installed height (only 135 lbs @ seat pressure) cause float @ 5700 rpm, also push rods were wrong length w/incorect geometry. They also sold me the wrong intake gaskets so the first time I went WOT the boost blew the gasket out under the manifold and pressurized my crankcase blowing out the oil pan gasket, oil was everywhere.
I will say they always did replace every part I had a problem with including gaskets and the short block has been together since 2004 so they must do OK with machine work.
I topped off the long block with a Vic jr set up for EFI 72lb injectors and a 1230 cfm 4150 style throttle body, but that would be somewhat irrelevant to you since your talking about a 6/71 roots.

BTW 10.80's is getting it done considering what you say about yours heads :thumb:

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#6 Post by prostude » Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:23 am

thanks for the info that will be very useful
ya I am still amazed that my old 350 went 10.80's with stock 76 cc junk heads regular not even long slot rocker arms and a very basic hydraulic grind cam even made all this power through a set of shorty block hugger headers with a 2.5" collector still makes no sense.Best part was I could street drive this anywhere

I am still very impressed with the 9.20's that you ran with your setup
:thumb:
Street car Old motor 10.80 @122 1.49 60' 355 6-71 stock gm heads stock rocker arms block hugger headers 1-5/8"x2.5" collector
the car ran in the 9's in the 60's with an olds motor.

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#7 Post by ERV JR » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:16 am

prostude wrote:thanks for the info that will be very useful
ya I am still amazed that my old 350 went 10.80's with stock 76 cc junk heads regular not even long slot rocker arms and a very basic hydraulic grind cam even made all this power through a set of shorty block hugger headers with a 2.5" collector still makes no sense.Best part was I could street drive this anywhere

I am still very impressed with the 9.20's that you ran with your setup
:thumb:
how much boost where you running ?

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Re: What cam are you running in your 350/383 blower motor

#8 Post by prostude » Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:26 am

ERV JR wrote:
prostude wrote:thanks for the info that will be very useful
ya I am still amazed that my old 350 went 10.80's with stock 76 cc junk heads regular not even long slot rocker arms and a very basic hydraulic grind cam even made all this power through a set of shorty block hugger headers with a 2.5" collector still makes no sense.Best part was I could street drive this anywhere

I am still very impressed with the 9.20's that you ran with your setup
:thumb:
how much boost where you running ?
I guess that is a little tough to answer since I was running shorty block hugger headers I am pretty sure I was getting a false reading
It would show 12 psi then when I was in third going through the traps it would creep up to 14 psi
car ran 10.80's with two 450 cfm carbs and a 34 36 blower pulley combo
put 2 650's on it and went 34 34 1:1 car definentley made more power but the chassis needed to be adjusted so I never really saw how much more it actually would have picked up I am guessin 2 tenths?
Street car Old motor 10.80 @122 1.49 60' 355 6-71 stock gm heads stock rocker arms block hugger headers 1-5/8"x2.5" collector
the car ran in the 9's in the 60's with an olds motor.

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