[Formulajones]

As Jay is trying to explain, and as I mentioned earlier, You absolutely cannot just rely on math figures that are supplied by cam manufactures, timing chain manufactures etc.....and just toss it together expecting it to be correct.

What ever figures you're coming up with from the cam manufacture and what ever the timing set says, you can throw that out the window, none of it matters.

All that matters is what that degree wheel and dial indicator on that intake lobe tells you. 9 times out of 10 you're going to find that the ICL is not exactly what it's thought to be. There are variances and tolerances that aren't 100% when it comes to those keyways on the crank and camshaft, and also with the timing set both on the cam gear and crank gear. Even if one or the other, or both, are off a couple thou you're going to find bigger changes on that degree wheel that won't match what your cam card says or what you've been told it should be. And every time you move that crank gear to advance or retard the cam, you'll have to check it again, because what you think you moved it, I can almost guarantee you'll find it was much more or much less than what it should have been.

It's a tedious process, it's not as simple as reading a piece of paper and just lining up dots, "IF" you want to do it correctly.

Honestly I would have been more concerned with the bottom end issues that have been pointed out than I would have been with the camshaft.