Pat,
Good to hear you grew up on 301 cu inch High winders. Probably we used the same 202 heads and green stripe cams!
Robert
Yep, ran the tach til it pegged at 7,000 then shifted if it sounded stressed!!
Tach was all we could afford, a hand me down!!
Yes, 202 heads, an occasional 097 cam or an Engle, or Isky. Many times it was what someone was finished with, what a bad lobe?? Just use a little emory cloth, smooth it up, cut a notch in the bottom of that rocker so when you tightened the rocker down it was now a few thousandths further and needed to clear the valve spring retainer!!
I had a friend that worked with me at one of the Chevy stores that had a 58 panel wagon that the interior looked like a grenade had gone off!!
Since I was in charge of the warranty parts locked bin, we would rummage through engines and get him a set of rings, some bearings, a few rockers, the balls and nuts. When the Chevy guy came around I got it all covered. My buddy ran the dog S_ _ t out of that car.
About every few weeks he would be back looking for more junk!!