<VV> Spike In Group Red / DESERVEDLY SO (HUMOR?)

[Louis Armer]

Well okay................take your old style cam and your 4 cylinder 
rice burner turbo with it's 6000 rpms and have at it !!! <GGG>

Non GroupRed FrontMan
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At 08:39 PM 6/20/2008, you wrote:
>304 cams were used in late, Late 180s and even some 140s.  High end 
>torque curve.  I thank you for the offer but I'd rather beat you 
>with my own cam.   GGGG         CICBBRT
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>Louis Armer <carmerjr at mindspring.com> wrote:
>What is a 304 cam? I have an early 150 turbo case with pistons, 
>crank and cam in it. Would it help you?
>Chuck
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>At 07:41 PM 6/20/2008, you wrote:
>>Smitty Says:  I hate to break up the thread on watches BUT.  Spike 
>>had low compression on two cylinders and a leak check showed air 
>>getting past the rings, and the valves were tight.  So I figured 
>>I'd ring those two cylinders.  Got to be ready to kick some A** at 
>>Indy on certain individuals.  So I pulled the head off and while 
>>tinkering around saw that the retaining clips had come off of two 
>>lifters.  OK I can handle that.  Pulled one out and stole a clip 
>>from an old lifter for it and put it back in.  Pulled the other one 
>>out and where it is supposed to be flat on the bottom, it is a 
>>perfect highly polished concave socket.  Hmmm.  This is looking 
>>less than fun.  So today the engine came apart and I am ready to 
>>split the block.  Got no new cams but I have a pile of used and 
>>preserved ones like cord wood.  Didn't want to waste too much time 
>>but I picked out a couple of 891s that I will measure tomorrow.  I 
>>know the one that lost a lobe was my last 304.  I am sick about that.
>>  As long as an 891 will crank to 6,000 I can live with it.  Lots 
>> of work ahead but Spike will be at Indy, looking for action.
>>   Now I need to warn those evil doers that sneak in here in the 
>> dark of night and mess with my cams that I do have a gun and I'm 
>> not afraid to use it.
>>   I think the moral to this story is "Don't re ring cylinders 
>> unless you have a race cam in the garage".
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