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Old 09-13-2016, 12:46 PM
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need help identifying a cam

so i got two cams mixed up, and now i dont know which one this is I know one is a radical cam and one isn't. Im not trying to kill a perfectly good peanut port BBC any help will be apreciated

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Re: need help identifying a cam

Post a photo of the lobes of both, side by side. I'll tell you right away which is "more".
Old 09-26-2016, 03:53 PM
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Well Turns out my block was cracked so I scrapped the big block and went with a small block. Turns out the cam was in the 550s/570s lift but I cant use it now.
Thanks for the help
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Re: need help identifying a cam

ssi cam, didn't paw sell those? If you have an old PAW catalog it will be in there.
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