Scott Vincent Heads Flowed?

[blykins]

Definitely check the balancer….

[DuckRyder]

One of my major issues ifs that i have very limited time to mess with it and most of my specialty tools (like dial back timing lights and degree wheels) are 3 hours away. That and it's so long between times i get to work on it that i forget where i was.

But yeah, i'll try to check that. I seem to recall that "0" was about dead center of the factory timing pointer meaning the portion that sticks out, not the edge like it should be.

[blykins]

They're usually about 7° off.

[bluef100fe]

That cam shouldn’t be hard on valvetrain… and is what I’d call a spirited driver cam. Especially in a 445 with C8-H heads. I ran a solid flat tappet that was 240/244 @0.050 and .600ish lift On a 110 LSA 20 years ago in a 390 with the same compression and heads in my 2WD SWB F100, drag raced it a bunch, towed junior dragsters to the track,drove it everywhere for a long time, eventually ran mid 12’s and 104 mph. Scott and I compared a lot of notes on porting old Iron heads. It takes quite a bit of work to get the H head to flow 270 cfm at 0.600 lift on a SF-600 bench. I sold Scott Vincent a 427 block a few years ago that I figured if anybody could save it, it was him. We met up at Blair Patrick’s shop and had a few laughs and caught up. He’s still a busy man. Still playing with the 2WD pulling trucks last I saw on Facebook. Very intelligent man.

[DuckRyder]

I'm really glad to hear he's doing ok! He is a super nice guy as long as you don't drive a chevy! I was like "i'll be in a white chevy van" and he was like "a CHEVY?" I was like "company truck not my choice" and he was like "Oh Ok, see you there"... LOL.

I don't hate this cam, in fact if it way hydraulic and i could keep the thing from tearing up rocker adjusters id be pretty happy with it. it does barely have enough vac for power brakes though.

[DuckRyder]

RE Compression.

I get 195-200 psi cranking 4-5 times with all plugs out and throttle blades wide open.