Originally Posted by GomangoCuda
What would be a good cam for a 500 ish TF270 700+hp engine?
Same question for a 572 Indy head 800+ hp?


TF heads are very sensitive to cam timing since they flow so well at lower lifts. It is easy to over cam them, I've done it a few times even though I should know better. For my pump gas 470 a 271 was too big but a 264/268 was just about perfect. I don't remember the cam in the 572, probably something in the 280/290 range.

I did have a customer try the 264/268 in a street car. It was a 505 with TF270 heads that made 700 hp on the dyno, but the idle was so rough that it took several hours of tuning before he could even drive the car. Fortunately it was an EFI car so we were able to tune it. Not so sure a carb and distributor could have been modified enough to work.