After that, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for "RV cams". Pulling the trailer, we were lucky to get 6. Foolishly, I got rid of it when I had a chance to buy a low mile RV with a 360 Dodge. With 35' tall tires a 3.73 or 4.10 gear is not even in the program. But with 35' tires think 5.38s and a 3000+ stall (10') A quick rebuild with a simmit engine kit w pistons fixes a lot. Best thing, it got 12 MPG pulling the car on the trailer. The (ported)305HO head on a 350 works very well if but only of /when you do it right. I remember coming home from the Fairmont race track on Hiway 60 south of Mankato, and going right around a friend of mine who had the same kind of a race car on a trailer behind a motorhome with a 440 chrysler in it. I put this in with new lifters and a properly redone head, and I couldn't believe the difference. In the meantime, I found a good deal on a new Sig Erson RV grind cam from Dale Wilch. I pulled the head and had it redone (thanks Gordy). Turned out, the guy who did the valve job botched something with the valve rotators which caused them all to burn. Anyway, my buddy rebuilt the engine (typical ring 'n valve job) and it ran pretty well for 6 or 700 miles when things started to go sour. After a couple of years of fighting this thing, something (probably a broken ring) went, and after putting in a quart of oil every 50 miles, we finally got home with the back of the RV COVERED in oil. I used to have a 1970 Winnebago with a 300 Ford 6 I used to haul my vintage dirt track car around.
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