What Cam does my 5.0 have ??

I always thought 5.0's were pushrod engines... I could be a complete idiot though.

-Mike

Push rod engines still have a cam... The cam is in the centerline of the valley, the lifters ride the cam lobes, which push up on the lifters, which rock the rockers, which open the valves. An OHV motor has a cam (or two) at the top of each head and the lobes move the rockers directly.

Yea, I was wondering what Mike(memset) was talking about..

FWIW, my 89 GT with a 308, ported and polished stock heads, and 2.73's will burn the tires from a standing start all day long.

Don Manning

Ah I understand a little better now. I never knew if pushrod engines had cams or not. See.. i'm an idiot when it comes to engine internals :P.

-Mike

Wow, I guess the OHC engines are more predominant than I thought. That question caught me totally off guard.

That was an 8-track what???

Jason S.

With those mods and a power band of 2500-6500+, probably something along the lines of an E303 or F303. But that's just a WAG. You really need to put a dial indiacator on a rocker arm to come close.

Hey, I don't see "Steeda TriAx" in that sig. Hrmm. :-P

Not cams, one cam.....

SHUP=)

-Mike

My guess ia an X303 or something similar, BTW what happened to the EFI rpm limit of about 6200 rpms?

Cams like the E303 or B303 were pretty common. Crane had the 2040, IIRC. It's pretty much just a guess though.

Steve

Isn't the B303 cam pretty much the same as the cam the Cobra motor had.

Someone please enlighten me.

Don Manning

Okay, I went looking...and this was all I could find.

B303 Cam

Intake 284 Exhaust 224 Valve(Int) .480 Lift(Exh) .480

210 Duration and .479 Lift (Int and Exh).

Don Manning

B303, duration 284/284, lift .480 1.6 rockers

Cobra, duration 279/279, lift .479 1.7 rockers

I don't know.

Here are a bunch of Ford cam specs (including the B,E,F, and X cams:

I am new to all this. My 5.0 in my 1985 GT is still stock. Can an E303 or B303 be dropped in without anything else modded? What kinda power increase would it give?

I have a HyperTech chip in it as well.

No idea where the RPM limiter is set at though.... ??

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-ERIC

Maybe that's what I got too! :>)

-ERIC