i have an 87 lt, its a 305 with an edelbrock performer intake, edelbrock 600 cfm carb, removed ac and smog pump. mallory dual point mechanical advance distributor, msd blaster coil, msd superconductor wires, bosch paltinum plugs, headman shorty headers with the headman y pipe, removed cat and soo to be just straight pipes out the back. i have stcok ehads but i shouldbe picking up a set of afr 190's in the near future. what cam would you guys recommend? thanks for any help

 

What gears? What converter?

 

for now its 2:73's but that will be chaning in late spring i'll be gonig up to soemthnig like 3:42's and for now i have a 700r4 but i have a th350 i might use. the 700r4 will probably stay its a stock converter but i should be going afetrmarket wit ha lil higher stall in late spring also

 

how about the crane cams 272? duration is 272/284 and gross lift is 454/480. would that cam do good?

 

go with ther comp 212-218 with 112 lsa
they call it the xtreme energy 256

 

how wil lthat cam idle? will it be rough or is it gonna idle smooth? i want a lsort of rough idle but nothing too crazy.

 

i have no clue, but when i called comp they told me that cam was for the 1986 305 tpi stock chip, and they told me it would make 40 hp with no other mods,

 

I'd go with the Comp Cams XE-262. I idle fine, a little noticable lope, sounds kick ***, plenty of vacuum to run the accessories and is a blast.

Could use 3.73's with that cam though.

 

the ex 262 - says that you need to upgrade the stock chip, and upgrade the exhaust, so that cam will run good with a stock tpi set up ,

 

I was responding to the original thread. He has a carb. Pretty much the beginnings of the same set up I have.

Sorry, I should've been more specific.