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PostPosted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:55 pm 
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So I've stripped down a 1275 to find a stroker crank 84.5mm and a bore of 73mm. ARP bolts and rollmaster timing. It also had a 2mm solid copper head gasket that was marked RE.
Anyway the cam is marked 175 or could be 176. Looks to be a very warm cam. Ideas?

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 Post subject: Re: Cam ID
PostPosted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:58 pm 
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TK wrote:
So I've stripped down a 1275 to find a stroker crank 84.5mm and a bore of 73mm. ARP bolts and rollmaster timing. It also had a 2mm solid copper head gasket that was marked RE.
Anyway the cam is marked 175 or could be 176. Looks to be a very warm cam. Ideas?


Speak with Graham Russell at Russell Engineering, an RE cam suggests it's a Russell Engineering grind if I am guessing right.


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 Post subject: Re: Cam ID
PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:26 am 
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The cam is marked 175 or 176. It is not marked RE.

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 Post subject: Re: Cam ID
PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:02 pm 
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176 will most probably be a Ivan Tighe grind or a WADE grind (same-same)

they also do a 176O & a 176CO
fairly big 3/4 race-ish thing
very common cam for the average joe racer
not extreamly big tho but will cover most average big ported heads

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