Project Obsession

[Todd in Vancouver]

Jim at Richmond Engines just called me and my 350 SBC is running and they've done some light pulls. I'll be stopping in there tomorrow morning to do some full pulls and see what this little fella will do.



Anyone want to guess what this little 350 will put down for power?

[gardnerme]

Todd,

"Very nice build" back at you. I am curious of your impressions of that TCI front subframe. It is a trick looking piece.

Anyone want to guess what this little 350 will put down for power?

I will play along. Not knowing the exact specs on the cam, I will give a conservative guess of 420 HP at about 6200 RPM and 380 ft. lbs. of torque at about 4500. I say "conservative" only because my gut tells me a solid roller cam may be a bit big for the RPM heads and also have a tigher LSA than what would work best with EFI. That being said, I would love to hear I was too conservative and you get much better numbers! Let us know!

Mike

[Todd in Vancouver]

Todd,

"Very nice build" back at you. I am curious of your impressions of that TCI front subframe. It is a trick looking piece.



I will play along. Not knowing the exact specs on the cam, I will give a conservative guess of 420 HP at about 6200 RPM and 380 ft. lbs. of torque at about 4500. I say "conservative" only because my gut tells me a solid roller cam may be a bit big for the RPM heads and also have a tigher LSA than what would work best with EFI. That being said, I would love to hear I was too conservative and you get much better numbers! Let us know!

Mike

Hi Mike,
I also had concerns as I didn't want to be another one of "those" guys who over cam and over carb my car and wonder why it doesn't perform like it should. I did lots of homework before I purchased this camshaft and here are the specs on it. And, yes I will post the dyno sheet as soon as I get it in my hands from the shop. I'm hoping I'll be able to post some video as well once I figure it out tomorrow night.

Solid roller, rough idle. Good cam for high performance street or mild strip applications. Needs 2500-2800 RPM stall speed converter, 9.5:1 or better compression, aftermarket exhaust system and 3.73 rear gear ratio.
•Advertised Duration (Int/Exh): 267/273
•Duration @ .050 (Int/Exh): 237/243
•Gross Valve Lift (Int/Exh): .566/.578
•LSA/ICL: 110/106
•Valve Lash (Int/Exh): 016/016
•RPM Range: 2500-6800
•Includes: Cam Only


Part Number: 40120731
Previoius Part Number: 60131

The TCI frame has been awesome to put together and the fit and finish was excellent. I've installed it twice checking the assembly and so far it's been all easy sailing. It will be a while before I can drive it and give any feedback but from everything I've read it performs very well and from what I see won a lot of races in the TCI '68 Camaro.