Thread:

Lookin for a Solid Roller Cam for my Lil 429

Originally Posted by Squirtin Thunder

I am looking for a solid roller cam similar to the Comp Cams XM288H

Adv. 288 304 @ .050 244 254 .580 .585

With all my input into Cam Quest it is the #1 choice so I would like to try one and see if it gets me where I need to be.

Here is what I got;

BBF 429

.030 (4.390), 3.59 crank, TRW 2366 Flat Tops, Mildly ported ex and cj entry C9 heads with 2.25 in, 1.75ex, the pistons are .007 in the hole and .038 head gaskets. I have a Victor 460 ported to cj specs and it is a Dom flang with a 2" 4150 adapter, with a 850dp sittin on top.

I need this engine to spin a MPD Heritage A impeller to a min of 5600rpms.

I have run the Comp XM 298, it was OK but not enough RPM. I installed the Comp 292H and it was better but not enough rpm eather. I barrowed a XR274R-10 and the mid range pull was real nice but it is not the ticked eather. So I want to try something else. I know this engine will turn the rpm desired. I want to stay with a solid roller.

Thanks
Jim

is compression at 11-1 ? XR274 is pretty mild , what about a XR280-10 and possibly a 112 LCA if you want to carry the rpm . not a Ford "guru" but would a smaller port intake help a 429 make some torque . where's the cam " guru's " to help this guy ?

Originally Posted by steelcomp

Sorry, bud. Glidden and Shepard were running 8.40's and 8'50's in 1980 with small blocks. Yes, iron headed then (I think) but they were welded, cut, port plated, and had bigger ports than the 429CJ and turned 10Krpm. Not even close to comparable.

I know...you're going to say someone did it before, just not at a Nat. event. Maybe, but not two years before. Sorry.

No BUD. Im not going to waste your'e time or mine. In the late 70s and early 80s I was working for a company that allowed me to travel the race curcuit and show product and deliver product to the racers. I'm not going to waste time fighting over the first sub 8.0 pass. But dont insult, Please this is a help site not a ball check site. If I come off with a comment that you don't like then show alittle class and respond. If I come off to strong for anybody, it might directed to motor builders that should know this before someone needs to tell them. If it still is a problem then I don't know what to tell you. Mark

Originally Posted by 78CoLeBBF

i got a ford that turns a A- at ss 6200 and it has a 429 in it






























the blocks a 429 anyway

Hey Cole, Sorry the guys here say it can't be done. Although you do it and I have done it! M

Originally Posted by 78CoLeBBF

mines acually a 514 with bt heads solid roller and some others im just messin but ive seen 429 in cars go like a mother prob like 600ish hp

Mine was a std-std 429 SCJ w/dove-c heads solid cam in a 1980 southwind tunnel dragster. Berkeley 12jgr-a stainless. ran well for that day and proud of the fact I did it all myself. I would state rpm thru the lights but it can't be done. M

Originally Posted by ol guy

Mine was a std-std 429 SCJ w/dove-c heads solid cam in a 1980 southwind tunnel dragster. Berkeley 12jgr-a stainless. ran well for that day and proud of the fact I did it all myself. I would state rpm thru the lights but it can't be done. M

Correct me if I'm wrong but D0VE-C heads does not make a CJ/SCJ engine since CJ/SCJ used a D0OE-R heads, completly different castings.

Originally Posted by Squirtin Thunder

I need this engine to spin a MPD Heritage A impeller to a min of 5600rpms.


Jim

Originally Posted by ol guy

Mine was a std-std 429 SCJ w/dove-c heads solid cam in a 1980 southwind tunnel dragster. Berkeley 12jgr-a stainless. ran well for that day and proud of the fact I did it all myself. I would state rpm thru the lights but it can't be done. M

M

FYI, I can damn guarantee you your 1980 Bek stainless A was nothing like a MPD detailed impeller. I'll bet my ass on it.

The MPD Legend "B" Stainless that is in my CP turns like it's an A+ or AA.

Sleeper CP

I sold a 428 Ford shortblock on eBay for a friend of mine. It came out of a boat that he had bought and the boat had 428 Super Cobra Jet painted/pinstripped in 3 different places. So I had to research the whole 428 CJ/428 SCJ, 428 PI/ 428 passenger car engine so I could determine to my potential buyers what the engine actually was. What a freakin joke Ford was. If they didn't have the correct set of rods on the shelf for the engine they were building Ford would use a different set to get the engine/vehicle delivered/sold. Same for pistons, cranks, blocks, etc... that is all fact which was documented (poorly) by Ford. If Ford was willing to put together a 428 SCJ engine together with a 428 passenger car block, CJ rods, and a PI crankshaft, why wouldn't they have also used different heads if the needed heads weren't on the shelf? In 1969 Ford used 6 different sets of rods in just the 428 SCJ engine.

Sorry for the short thread jack Jim. Good luck.