Pulled out the cam today, on the back by the distributor gear I found some numbers. Is there a way to figure out what or who's cam this is?
C-24
750760

 

Well, I contacted the machine shop in town to see if they would be willing to figure it out for me, their reply was drop it off and maybe we can get to it in the next week or two, I didn't really expect it today, but a couple weeks seemed a bit long, I didn't think it would be so hard to find someone around here that would be able to do it, I don't have a dial indicator or a degree wheel or I'd try to figure it out. I'm a body man not a cam guy lol. Anyway all I figured out so far is my 74 lobes are 1.680 and the cam from the short block I bought are 1.701. so I guess it's bigger lol

 

Unless someone has a cam dr its hard to get the specs on that cam. The numbers on the back are the grind number but problem is figuring out who made the cam to look it up.

 

I have no idea what you mean by this. Can you explain?

 

Just measuring the the height of the lobes does nothing. You need the difference between the base circle and the peak for lift.

 

I measured the lobes of the cam, the total height from.the round bottom to the egg shaped tip

 

What units of measurement? You can't possibly have 1.680 and 1.701 inches of cam lift.

 

It is a measurement of the entire lobe.

 

Oh. You need to measure at the lowest point and then at the highest point. Subtract the larger reading from the smaller reading and that is the lobe lift.

That's what Randy was saying above:

 

Which tells you nothing. Again, you MUST use a dial indicator and degree wheel. Read this:

http://www.lunatipower.com/Tech/Cams/CamSpecTerms.aspx