Trevor Triumph
Jedi Knight
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As summer nears and I have time again, my wife's Spitfire is calling... We're rebuilding the 1500 engine and have installed high compression pistons, secured a 4 into 1 header, bought a twin carb manifold and two S.U. carb puzzles. I don't know what is in the car now... actually the cam is in a box on the garage floor... I figure since the engine had the low compression pistons, the single Stromberg carb, and the cast exhaust manifold, the cam is stock as well. Now my questions, do I want to add a hotter cam? Is there a way to determine if the old cam is stock? We don't intend to race the car but we would use the car to travel to Triumphest, Las Cruses NM, and such; in other words hundreds of miles often on the Interstate. Any suggestions? (Our current Spitfire, Trevor, a MkI screams at Interstate speeds and the automatic hill detector works very well: forty-five MPH up the hill into Flagstaff AZ is quite scary.) T.T.