Quote: sounds like JD needs to get his OE cam over to Brad so he can put it in a block and measure it up.
Yep... 'cept I need to have a block w/a crank in it where I can actually measure it. But the measuring part is a "no brainer".
Here's some other stuff to on the original A12 camshaft... seems like the factory couldn't quite decide what to tell people when the cars were introduced. Here are a bunch of quotes from various "at the time" articles linked from the A12 Registry, including the links to the articles themselves, plus some of Ro McGonegal's after-the-fact comments published many years later:
http://www.homestead.com/sixpacksixbbl/a12roadtestspage11.html Ro McGonegal's comments a couple of decades after the Cecil County test: "The production cam had 268/284-degrees duration, .450/.465-inch lift and 46 degrees of overlap, but the one in our mule kicked a little harder. This cam was reportedly phased with stock lift, 276/292 degrees of intake and exhaust duration, and 54 degrees of overlap. We suspect, too, that the 10.5:1 forged pistons originally proposed for this limited-production 440 were inside the engine of our special test car. Though early print ads specified the higher-than-standard compression ratio, the naked truth was cast-aluminum pistons and a nominal static compression ratio of 10.1:1."
on the original A12 camshaft... seems like the factory couldn't quite decide what to tell people when the cars were introduced. Here are a bunch of quotes from various "at the time" articles linked from the A12 Registry, including the links to the articles themselves, plus some of Ro McGonegal's after-the-fact comments published many years later:
