Originally Posted by Cms51 (Post 4880877)

I also think alot of us younger guys dont start threads because the negative comments arnt worth dealing with. I've been debating of making a thread about my build for the 2 years its been going on, but wanted it to be completed and water tested so people can see the whole start to finish without nit picking it apart, like i said before ive had alot of advice and help from some longtime members but negative comments dont help with guys wanting to start new build threads. FB is 20x worse. This site has by far the best technical data.

Originally Posted by TomZ (Post 4880862)

Though it does seem that sub-forum searching has improved some, Google is your friend for searching OSO (search topic and "offshoreonly" does pretty well).

731 cam - it's still a great cam for the majority of what people are doing. It's no longer made, yes, but the specs are readily available by (wait for it) searching. Then you take those specs to your cam grinder of choice. Bam - you have a 731 cam. Personally, I like the 621 ;)

If you do a lot of reading, you'll find that things haven't changed all that much over the years because the parts just work. Tweaks are made for aftermarket cylinder heads, but for those cases, you're dealing with very specific inputs to come up with the right parts to support - those things are talked about, but more times than not, you're looking at custom-ground cams to take advantage of a cylinder head's flow characteristics. Sure, something off the shelf will work (and they do to a point), but you may end up having a lot of the advantage of those high-dollar heads going right out the exhaust.

Ask questions and be specific. Still lots of very knowledgeable people here to answer. That's my thought anyway.

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