Thread: Whats a good torque cam for a 351-W

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Any of the various cams they call RV would be great. These are a step up from stock and are basically not high winders but more for street torque.

If you pick a brand you can call the cam maker and have them recommend a particular grind based on the usage, equipment, and what you expect it to do.

Don

A cam with the duration in the neighborhood of 210-220 @ .050 lift is a pretty good daily driver cam. Anything larger will lower your vacuum signal and affect idle quality.

I use 214/224 cams (dual pattern cams) in my mild build 302s and 351s. There is said to be a gain in power by using the 351W cam in 302s (using the 351W firing order of course) but I think the only real noticable gains are in the higher performance apps.

Your best gains would be switching to aftermarket heads or hogging the crap out of your stock heads and installing bigger valves. Anymore the aftermarket heads are cheaper that modifying the stockers.