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2.7 cams and piston advice
I have am working on a 75 S I purchased from a friend a couple of years ago that had been sitting for 23 years. Engine was freshly rebuilt just before the car suffered some minor damaged in a parking lot and was taken to a body shop for repair and paint. Shop owner died before the car was completed then the shop owners son was to complete the car and he was killed in an accident. So the car owner took the car home in a partially disassembled state and placed in in a building where it had set for 23 years. I had tried to buy the car over the years but he still had hopes of getting it back together but never did and finally sold me the car. He was a great engine man and had a shop for 30 years doing VW and Porsche work. He acquired this car when it lost a timing chain and the original owner sold rather than fix it. My friend went through the engine doing a full rebuild on it and was using the car when it was damaged.
The entire fuel system had gas the consistency of tar in it so the injection was in pretty bad shape and I found a good set of rebuilt Zeniths for it and some lightly used SSI’s for the exhaust side. I am looking for some advice on cams an pistons to complete the breathing side of things and get a little more out of the engine. I am not looking for a barn burner but would like to get closer to 200HP if I can. I know if I put cams in I need to change pistons for clearance but have not worked on these things in years and was wondering what might be a good setup? Thoughts? Car is still a narrow body which it will remain and has 56,000 original miles on it. I will be doing some suspension upgrades but staying with the portion bars, just building a nicer version of what this car was originally.
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