Thread: montego malady

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Every time you change the cam and or timing set in a motor, the cam should be degreed, but I'd bet that maybe 1 in 50 hot rodders do it if they're not dedicated 1/4 mile buffs or competitors in another venue of racing.

I'm thinkin' that the retarded sprockets are maybe half a tooth off from the standard sprockets, so jumping a tooth probably wouldn't do it. A fellow could drill out the cam pin hole in the cam sprocket to use offset bushings, but the only ones I found were from Crower and had 0-1-2-3-4 bushings, so if the sprocket is off by 8-10 degrees, these would do you little or no good, unless you wanted to jump the sprocket by one tooth and then back it up into the desired range with bushings.

When push comes to shove for a fellow who probably will not invest in the tooling to degree the cam, best thing to do is purchase a timing set for a '68-'70 429 and call it good.

I calculated his static compression ratio at 8.96:1, using 0.028" piston deck height, 0.040" head gasket and 96cc chambers, so it ain't gonna be a world beater anyway. At least he chose the proper cam timing to go with the SCR.

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