Crane Cam Question

Anything wrong with this cam? Is there any reason you wouldn't run it in a 460 or even a stroker in a street/strip, fairly heavy vehicle?

Specs.: 282/292 advertised, 246/256 @.050 .563/.580 lift, 108 LSA

It's a solid flat tappet.

I ran this in a mild compression 466 years ago in my old '79 F100 and was pretty happy with the way it ran.
It seems like someone, I think on one of these forums, said it wasn't a very good design for the 429/460 engines.

What do you guys think?

The duration is about 10 degrees too high for your application thinking that the compression is below 10 and it has exhaust manifolds and a converter stall around 2400.
Probably it would be perfect with a 4.5" stroke crank.

Dave De wrote:The duration is about 10 degrees too high for your application thinking that the compression is below 10 and it has exhaust manifolds and a converter stall around 2400.
Probably it would be perfect with a 4.5" stroke crank.

It definitely was below 10-1 compression but the truck did have headers and a 3000 stall. Now that I think about it, pretty sure I installed it 4 degrees advanced--or whatever the 3 way crank sprocket was equipped with.

1EFF100 wrote:

Dave De wrote:The duration is about 10 degrees too high for your application thinking that the compression is below 10 and it has exhaust manifolds and a converter stall around 2400.
Probably it would be perfect with a 4.5" stroke crank.

It definitely was below 10-1 compression but the truck did have headers and a 3000 stall. Now that I think about it, pretty sure I installed it 4 degrees advanced--or whatever the 3 way crank sprocket was equipped with.

Probably best to degree that cam in with a wheel and set it at 106 ICL.

1EFF100 wrote:Anything wrong with this cam? Is there any reason you wouldn't run it in a 460 or even a stroker in a street/strip, fairly heavy vehicle?

Specs.: 282/292 advertised, 246/256 @.050 .563/.580 lift, 108 LSA

It's a solid flat tappet.

I ran this in a mild compression 466 years ago in my old '79 F100 and was pretty happy with the way it ran.
It seems like someone, I think on one of these forums, said it wasn't a very good design for the 429/460 engines.

What do you guys think?

This is smaller than the size camshaft run in the Ford Racing B460 crate engine, M-6250-C460 hydraulic lifter cam.

Being that it is a solid lifter it would run very similar to the smaller M-6250-A443 hydraulic lifter camshaft used in the lesser E460 crate engine.  It is a 108 separation instead of a 112 separation so, it will idle rougher with less vacuum.

M-6007-B460 = 10.5/1 compression, single plane intake manifold, 535 horsepower
M-6007-E460 = 10.5/1 compression, dual-plane intake manifold, 486 horsepower