need help with cam selection

[spork1o1]

Car is a 1967 Galaxie 500 2 door fastback. 
C6 trans 2000 stall converter. 
Tire size and gearing to have cruise rpm about 2500@55mph, 3000@70mph. 
Engine 390 4.05 bore, stock stroke, 9.5 CR,
C4AE-G heads (no port work),
RPM intake, fpa headers, 2.5 exhaust. 
hinking hydraulic roller, but not set in stone. 
Lumpy idle not a bad thing (no power brakes) 

[Grbmaverickmo]

Look at the Howards cams I like them in alot of the builds I do.

[My427stang]

I would make sure your calculated compression is exactly right, because you are right on the edge of being able to run a little more cam.

Often 390s are deeper in the hole and have slightly larger chambers than you'd expect and you end up with lower compression.

That being said, sounds like a heavy 3.50 geared car with a little converter.  I'd be looking at something around  218-224 degrees at .050.

Comp has an Xtreme Energy grind that would work well, but could be a little noisy. Comp has some quieter lobes too though

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/cca-33-422-9/overview/make/ford

A similar cam could also be ground on 108 centers if you wanted the idle to sound a bit more rowdy, and it would bring torque up a bit

If there is any way to get the heads ported along with the cam, even if it is even just a modern valve job with some bowl work and blueprint all the chambers, I think you'd see more gain