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Originally Posted by Formulajones

Take Cliff's advice, he's absolutely right. DON'T put a tiny performer cam in that 455, you'll have all kinds of detonation problems you don't need. That cam was in no means ever intended for a big 455 with 10.5:1 compression.

Shoving a bunch of octane boost in the tank is a band aid fix that 99% of us on the forum here avoid with proper cam and compression choices. No one wants to carry a case of that stuff around in the car all the time or even bother worrying about it. Especially those of us that actually drive and race our cars.

A lot of folks around here use racing fuel. I just didn't feel like driving to that station at the time. There are only a few who try to run on pump gas. It's no biggie at all to use different fuel or additives.

I did build a low compression 428 to run on pump gas so I could run nitrous in my race car.

I have to run octane booster in my concourse bone stock numbers matching 69 400 Vert Bird. It's a normal thing.