Why such a small cam? I'm not knocking ya'll, but just curious why ya'll chose such a small cam.

 

It is.

 

I wouldn't be affraid of such a small cam with a DD and a turbo. Everyone isn't building a hot street motor.

 

As for Richard and Rex, their customer service and willingness to talk to me on the phone and explain everything is the reason they are getting my business. I called a few local builders also and they didn't seem interested in "chatting" with me. Rex and Richard will talk your ear off if you keep asking questions

 

I wasn't knocking you decisions. I was actually thinking that a 218/224 is a medium cam on a 5.3 and a small-medium on a 5.7. I was thinking on the same scale it would be like stock in a 408.

If you're answer is simply, that's what you wanted, then that's what I was looking for. If someone recommended it, I was going to ask why and maybe what you told them to recomend that cam.

FWIW, COmp Cams recommended a 216/220 114 to me for my 408.

 

Your motor is in the right hands....and those heads will be a nice addition cough, cough, motor install tool, cough cough.

 

What did you say to them to recommend you that cam for your 408?

 

I'm looking forward to seeing the results.

As for the motor install tool, I'd be interested if I didn't already have a load leveler.

 

Richard recommended because I told him:

I have a stock-ish stall converter
I use the truck to tow a 6000lb boat
The truck already weighs 5000-5500lbs since it's ECSB 4WD
It's my daily driver, I put about 3000 miles a month on it (already put 14k on the 408 since it went in back in January)
I got tired of the chunky cam that was in there before
The engine spends about 90% of it's time below 2500 RPM

 

BTW, motor is out and on a pallet in the back of my buddy's truck, ready to go to the freight yard tomorrow. Time on the job was roughly 5 hours, with about a 30 minute break for dinner

Then putting it on a pallet and securing it and loading it into the truck took another two hours (which included a trip to a local business after hours to pillage their shipping dock for a decent pallet ).