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You basically have two threads running on the same topic.
We finally got enough information and it seems to me that your ignition is set up right. Your mechanic is good.
Spend the money on a new camshaft, the next smaller one, I believe it's a 274, has 224 @ 50 on the intake.
R.
Yep.
Hitting a number on a Dyno is not that hard nowdays. It's objective goal that everyone understands.
Idle sound, idle quality, exhaust loudness at cruise, etc are all subjective things. They mean different thing to different people and they are hard to measure and predict.
You got racers who unload their cars of the trailers at the track who think anything not needing earplugs is tame. Then guys who consider their cars "daily drivers" that drive them 3 miles to the local cruise-in.
I have an out of the box XE274 in a 419" stoker. It's not bad, but I wouldn't mind if it idled quieter. Having it custom ground on a 112* lobe seperation would help too. MRL Performance uses that can with that custom centerline on many of his stroker builds.
Last edited by autoxcuda; 08/30/14 09:11 PM.
