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PLEASE HELP. NEED ADVISE. Lost a cam lobe!!!!

Broncobowsher

Total hack
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Jun 4, 2002
Messages
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450 is an advertising/bragging number.
If you actually put it on an engine dyno, 350 HP is what you will probably see.
Installed and run on a chassis dyno, 250 HP to the ground.

All numbers plus/minus 25. That should be at least 90% correct.
 

broncnaz

Bronco Guru
Joined
May 22, 2003
Messages
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Id put the OP's combo at around 320 hp. Should be a good running combo.

Sure you can run higher hp engines the bigger the cam the less power you have on the low end so you have to run the engine to the top of its RPM range. For most of us the gaol is a good running vehicle you can cruise in that has th epower exactly where we need it not 3000 RPM higher. Most of us are not in it to brag about hp/tq or have to run high RPMs to keep the engine happy.
Also have to figure that most of the advertised numbers are made using components that few people with broncos will ever run. 1 3/4" headers 750 cfm or larger carb ect.
Heck you can easily build a 4cyl engine to put out 400hp that doesnt make it a suitiable engine for a bronco.
Nobody is saying you cant run higher HP just got to have common sense and kind of stay in line with the OP's orginal question about his combo.
 

SpareParts

Bronco Guru
Joined
Nov 13, 2004
Messages
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My 351w is .030 over, 9.5 compression with small chambered heads, heavily ported, torque cam, .460/.480 lift 204/210 duration, 1.7 rockers, Mustang EFI.....has enough torque to break a lot of parts!! :cool:

2 - D44 ring an pinions
2 - sets of Warn lockouts
2 - stock shafts
3 - chromo shafts

1 - 9" center section, blew the bearing caps out of it-ring gear through the back housing
2 - 31 spline axles

countless drive shafts and u joints

1 - D60 stub shaft

So far any way!!;D

Desk top dyno said mine was 325 hp and 375 tq???? Who cares! LOL
 
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