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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spike Morelli" data-source="post: 306840" data-attributes="member: 3194">Just my .02, Of those two choices the smaller Howard is the better for a street car,in both lift at the valve, and duration @.050". The Howard grind should also have more bottom end grunt at 106, over the Voodoo.  Of ALL the things done by enthusiasts to hop-up their engines, over-camming is the NUMBER ONE silly thing that people do. We all picture our cars as lumpy idling , nasty , mean, even scary machines that everyone will idolize us for being able to tame.....It's a machismo thing.I have some experience here....I've done it too, when I was younger. Now, as it so turns out, I build engines for a living, and have learned by my mistakes and other peoples mistakes. Here now, is a very simple way to look pragmatically ( realisticly ) at the issue......You can always "enhance" the breathing characteristics of a cam of smaller "events" with better intake manifolding, headers, head work............BUT trying to make a cam that's too big for the street, street-friendly, takes choking it down and the engine will never fully run right, let alone you'll probably kill off a bunch of bottom end and vacuum to adequately power those power brakes.  Just like tuning on the dyno, the key is to give the engine what it likes, not what you want to give it.</blockquote>

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