WTF is a 3/4 race cam???

[Joey Hanie]

Any of you guy's ever been around some old men talking about "the good ole day's" when there car's were the shit! And then that start to talk about there engine's specification"s! That's when you here " bubba, my car had a 3/4 race cam, and it was da fastest thang around dee's part's". wtf doe's that mean??

[todds69]

i've always wondered that? i agree wtf

[31modela]

I used to hear about the 3/4 race cam and the full race cam but I have no idea what they represent.

[one_fast_camaro]

I think there was such a thing back in the old flathead days. the name managed to stick around into the ohv V8's due to ppl bragging about there engine.

[mustang23LX]

a lot of people saying it now are quoting chris farley in the movie "black sheep". i love that line actually and use it sometimes myself.

[badazmaro]

when i worked for reed cams someone asked me about one i just laughed at him

[Tireman]

The original 3/4 cam was an Isky for a Flathead...like mentioned above... As to what it really meant, you would have to find Ed Iskendarian and ask him:D

[Mike Harris]

It comes from a guy named Ed Winfield. He started out making motorcycle cams with individual lobes pinned to a shaft. When he first made automotive camshafts, he was using a homemade cam grinder his mother gave him the money to buy. It was a grinder he converted into a cam grind machine by adding a rocker table. He reground Ford Model T camshafts into racing specifications. At first, he first made only two masters... a SEMI race and a FULL race grind. He later made a 3rd master that had more duration and lift than the SEMI but less than the FULL. He then used the FULL race master as an intake and the new master as an exhaust. He called this new reground camshaft a 3/4 race cam. He said it was three quarters of the way to a full race cam. He worked with the then famous Miller Racing engines and later with Offenhauser. Now you know.

[mustang23LX]

Originally posted by Mike Harris
It comes from a guy named Ed Winfield. He started out making motorcycle cams with individual lobes pinned to a shaft. When he first made automotive camshafts, he was using a homemade cam grinder his mother gave him the money to buy. It was a grinder he converted into a cam grind machine by adding a rocker table. He reground Ford Model T camshafts into racing specifications. At first, he first made only two masters... a SEMI race and a FULL race grind. He later made a 3rd master that had more duration and lift than the SEMI but less than the FULL. He then used the FULL race master as an intake and the new master as an exhaust. He called this new reground camshaft a 3/4 race cam. He said it was three quarters of the way to a full race cam. He worked with the then famous Miller Racing engines and later with Offenhauser. Now you know.
hmm, googled "3/4 race cam", sounds like what harvey crane had to say. ;)
http://www.harveycrane.com/secrets7.htm

[Joey Hanie]

well now i know " and knowing is half the battle" gijoe!!!
stupid commercial's!!!:D

[festivagt]

QUOTE]Originally posted by williecumminer
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!I beat there car's had a 3/4 race cam in it also!!!:D [/QUOTE]
MY SS HAD A 3/4 race cam in it i bought it at Supershops when they were in business.You could put a hundred dollar bill on the dash and nobody could grap it when you accerated.lolThis almost is beliveable back when we were kids.I wonder what kind of stories we are going to have. Like soap in fountains or maybe even going for BULLDOZER rides.HELL maybe even stories about how we all BEAT THACKERS ASS.THAT STORIE WOULD BE GREAT.Heres how it would start once opon a time there was this bitch named THACKER he was a harmless little FUCK who he though he was all, that and tried to start shit with everybody.HE tried to impress people my tellong everybody he had a cam only SS slowmaro.Nobody really gave a flying FUCK .ONEDAY THE SOUTHSIDE GOT TOGETHER AND WAITED ON HIM TO COME BACK TO THERE SIDE OF TOWN.BUT HIS SCARED ASS NEVER CAME BACK TO THE SOUTHSIDE.HIS SHIT WAS SO SLOW WELL KIDS THE MORRAL OF THIS STORY IS THERE IS ALWAYS A LOSER THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER. I HOPE THAT HE SHOWS UP SO THAT WE CAN TELL ABOUT THE SOUTHSIDES WHIPPING ASS

[Mike Harris]

Originally posted by mustang23LX
hmm, googled "3/4 race cam", sounds like what harvey crane had to say. ;)
http://www.harveycrane.com/secrets7.htm

How about that? You can find it more places than there. It was actually on another board I used to visit. So why didn't ya "Google" on your first post and save me some typing? :D

[mrmeanbean74]

i don't know but i will give them the money to buy that other 1/4 if they need it

[Joey Hanie]

Originally posted by mrmeanbean74
i don't know but i will give them the money to buy that other 1/4 if they need it

you aint right stubby!!!

[bigtyre187]

take it to the street

[mrmeanbean74]

bigturd u better leave that 1/2 cam of yours at the house

[bigtyre187]

ok then

[Gone In 5 Seconds]

I like this thread! This is Joe Dirt style!:rockon:

[Joey Hanie]

dirt style!

[Gone In 5 Seconds]

Originally posted by williecumminer
dirt style! right on :nice:

[we_todd_did]

yo

[fade2blk500]

i wish i had a 3/4 cam, with that and skinnies i'd be doin 8's in the 1/4

[distortion_69]

Maybe it means 270 degrees duration, or 3/4 or 360. Or perhaps .750 lift. Or maybe its just a redneck way of saying.. 3/4 drag strip, 1/4 street.. or a mostly drag car cam.

EDIT: Didn't read the explination post..

Peace,
Josh

[C&P Performance]

my buddies uncle let me hear his chevy truck, it sounded damn good so i asked what size cam he had, he replied with "Full race.":rolleyes: