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Originally Posted by asphaltgambler
The Ford Cammer was the only production engine to have fully machined intake, exhaust ports and combustion chamber. It was designed from the start as a high RPM, endurance race engine with no compromise
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From what I remember, it was really no more than SOHC heads and a timing chain housing bolted to an exist Ford big block, like the FE or 428.
From what Jim Green and my neighbor told me, this less than fully developed cam drive was its achilles heel. Very difficult to set cam timing and, once set, it didn't hold it. Too much "whip" in the chain while it was running. Had it not been virtually immediately banned by our two most influential sanctioning bodies, Ford might have finished development. Probably would have changed the game. Very cool motors.