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Do you have the rest of the cam card picture? The .050" numbers?
Greg

 

WOW! 3 years waiting!

 

Yup,

 

My TA-290-94H, purchased Nov. 2023.

 

TA 413 HLR

 

I ran a Crower 52243 in a 464 several years ago and it made good power. It was an all iron Stage 1 motor with 12 to 1 compression. The advertised cam specs called for it to produce power up to 5,000 rpm. However, the dyno showed that we made the most power of 602.8 hp at 5900 rpm.

 

Was the Crower a Roller Cam?
What piston manufacture did you use and same for tube headers?
Did you have to install a girdle?
I assume you zero decked the block. Was this done with custom pistons vice milling the block.
ET and Mph, please. Thank you. Vet (Navy)

 

Intake was a Wildcat Cool Runner and carburetor is listed on the dyno sheet as a 1050. The 1050 Dominator was from John Osborne Performance.
At the time this motor was dynoed, it was running 1.6 roller rockers. The Stage 1 heads were ported by Charlie Evans. AMP did all the machine work and I built the motor.

 

No, the cam was not a roller cam. Just an “off the shelf “ Hydraulic cam ordered out of the Crower catalog.
Pistons were Ross flat tops with valve reliefs on stock 455 rods and yes, Zero deck height.
Headers were Doug Headers that wrapped # 7 and 8 pipes around the frame.
No Girdle, However, on all of my motors, I water jet and install a Halo for additional strength of the main caps.
Sadly, I made the mistake of running a used set of roller rockers on this motor and broke one on the next pull. This damaged the cam and busted the lifter valley, thus destroying the block. I quickly prepared another block and transferred the rotating assembly over, ordered another Crower cam. This time I went with the Crower Solid 52312 and a new set of TA 1.65 roller rockers. Estimated horsepower was around 650 and the car ran 10.30’s at around 128 mph.
(Also a Vet, Marine Corps 1969 - 1971)

 

I recently purchased a slightly used Crower 52243 that was Ground by Bullet Cams for Crower. A friend of mine was running it in his GS street car and decided to go with one a little smaller. He said that it had good street manners and that when you kicked down on it, it ran strong on top end.
I am currently running a TA-284-86F Solid in my Stage 2 with two quick fuel 800 Holleys and a 4-speed. It is a Beast on the street, well over 600 horsepower. My current cam is too much and I am going to the Crower 52243. My compression ratio is 11.8 to 1 and I am considering switching over to E85 as well.

 

Yes I need to have more drivability on the bottom end and going from a 108 center line cam to a 112 center line should provide that for me. It is difficult to take off in traffic without spinning tires. I did add power valves back into the carburetors and dropped the jet size on the primary side thereby reducing horsepower to help with street driving.

 

Wow, you have one hell of an engine there. To bad for the first one. My old Navy buddy and I have all kinds of discussions on rotating parts that have roller or needle bearing in them, we stay away from them. Can't afford another engine.
I have never heard of a Halo before, have to see one on YouTube.
We must be close in age, Navy 6th Fleet - 68 to 72.
Had Shore patrol in Getmo Cuba. Big fight at the bar between the Marines and the British Marines, thought I was going to get killed trying to break it up. Lol