low comp pistons and camshaft
 

I recently commited to building up my internals in prep for boost and n2o, my question is, I have low comp pistons CR 8.5:1 and I purchased a camshaft from crane cams, but now I wondering if i bought the wrong one. The one i bought said for turbo and n2o use, it has a duration of 224/224 and a gross lift of .423"/.423". Now the other camshaft they offer (which is about $180 more) the duration is 232/232 and the lift is .443"/.443". With the low comp pistons, can this camshaft that i have cause compression problems or anything? I dont know much about cams, this is why I'm asking, so please take it easy on me ;)

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what do you mean compression problems?

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Some people have told me, since the lift and the duration isnt as high, wiht the low comp pistons it might not run right. I dunno, its all greek to me...lol Like I know what cams and ---- are, but the numbers I'm not too fimillar with.

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well im no expert either, but you can run compression that low with a stock cam and have no problem. True, that cam may not be the biggest one, but sometimes you can go too big

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Thats what I was thinkin too, but the one with the higher specs are made for running off a stock engine, so I dont know, i think my best bet would be to contact crane cams and ask them...

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with lower compression prob.ly you are not being ableto take advantage of a NA cam..
but if you are boosting....i don`t see where the problems are ..not if you have a BIG BIG overlapped cam.

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So the cam i currently have (the lower lift and duration) should be more than sufficent with boost? Or should i send it back and get the other one?