Stake bed:

I'm not running the same cam as Charlie, and I'm running mine with a straight key.

John F, since you are looking to see Charlie at Columbus next year, that means you'll be there again.  We GOT YA.

The other John F.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

I will be there for sure. I admit it I'm hooked.

John F

Ballwin, MO

Stake,

I wanted to install the cam straight up but the keyway is off enough that I could not.  I probably could have played around with the cam chain to get what I wanted but I didn't think of it at the time.

John,

I plan to be there again this year.  Hopefuly the truck will make it this time.  I made it to Tennessee last year.  I have a lot of work to do between now and then -  a new wire harness and replacing the cab mount sheet metal are at the top of the list.  I'd like to have a 5-speed in too.  I may just try to trailer it there.  I don't normally like doing that but it's 600 miles, one way.  There's a lot of stuff on it that's still old - it wouldn't be good for it to break while racing that far away.  It looks like there may be a good number of trucks there this year!

Hoosier,

What's a straight key?  Is that what I'm calling straight up?

Lawrenceville, GA

Charlie,

            Factory key, no advance, no retard. That thing sounds great  Young'n!  

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Charlie, I hope you can make it with the truck to Columbus. That would be neat to have a good amount of trucks this year. I agree with the trailer. Around home I'll drive it to the tracks, but for a long haul I use the trailer. Plus if the scruburban breaks down, I can tow it home with the blue truck.

  Dennis in Lititz PA

Charlie,



Before there were adjustable timing chains available, you could buy/juggle custom offset keys of various degrees to dial-in cam timing.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Outstanding! It does sound very cool. I was impressed that the engine still sounded like it had a lope even with a cam with 112^ LSA.



I'm guessing that having the 2-4 degrees extra LSA was the reason for installing the cam slightly retarded. That ought to have some nice top-end power.



Edit: IIRC, the Chevy 6cyl keys will fit and someone makes offset keys for them.

Best regards,



Paul Menten

Meridian, Idaho

It smooths out a little once it has warmed up but there is still some lope at idle. I didn't want to install it retarded. I just couldn't get it where I wanted with the adjustable timing set. I wanted it... straight key. It has good power off idle but it really starts to come on up around 2500. I plan to put a little boost on it at some point and built the bottom end with that in mind. It should handle 6 pounds or so. I'll have to swap the heads. The problem is I'll get used to it and want to crank the pressure up so I'll probably tear it down to install proper pistons when I get to that point.


Lawrenceville, GA

g'day charlie

all i have too say about your yblock  can be summed up in one word "AWSOME" it sounds & looks great best of luck.

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Congratulations Charlie, after your initial run bump the timing up to 12 degrees and see if it runs better and doesn't sparknock under load and cranks easy, If it does better then try one or two more degrees to find your engines sweet spot. It really does look great. Congratulations again!

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