I am having no luck identifying a cam in a 65 327. It is a hydraulic flat tappet. Engine was rebuild around 10 years ago or so, or more. I have searched around the Hamb and Google and I am not getting anywhere. The engine is on the stand, cam is still in the engine. With the rear cam plug removed, there are two sets of numbers engraved (not stamped) into the back of the cam. I would post a photo, but it is hard to gear a clear picture due to the engine stand. The numbers are: 5022-553/H112 CCA1425-12 Any help would be appreciated. Bill
My guess is Comp cams, hydraulic ( you know that) 112 degree centerline. Call them up with that number, also I think 5022 is a Comp cams number. Good luck. Pat
Yes♤♤♤♤♤ I no longer recall Comp Cams' numbers but if you're lucky it will be ground on the 327/350 hp profile. How about some photos of the engine or major components, maybe even some block and head casting numbers when you get the opportunity. Long live the 327!
The 5022-553 may be lobe profiles, H- hydralic , 112- centerline. All the Comp Cams that I have seen for small block Chevy part numbers start with 12-xxxx, not end with a 12. Maybe Comp Cams changed their part numbering at some time? At this time, I don't think it's a Comp Cam. Bill
I like 327's so much I am building a Ford version of one. 4.040 bore by 3.25 stroke. It comes out to a 333 or 334 if you round up.
G'day, I have used a few of the 327 350HP cams in the past. The last one we did I scored a steel large journal 327 and stuffed it in a four bolt 4.030 bore block. Had some wicked dome pistons on pink rods and ran large chamber 2.02/1.6 valve heads. It went into an early El Camino and was a workhorse. The first 327 I did is still in my possession. I put it in my dad's 1963 Nova SS with 305 4 barrel heads and a tripower setup. That is one fun ride. And like everyone says when selling a Chevy engine, it is a Corvette engine. It actually was the original motor in a 1962 Corvette. At least the short block was. I still have one large journal steel 327 crank left but not enough projects to use it in. Probably won't be building any more 327's.
5022 is also an Edelbrock number for an SBF Torker Plus Cam,Chevy is 5002,wondering if you might have the old SBC Torker cam that is no longer listed.
I still think the first series of numbers, look like that might be the profile of the cam? Maybe the cam is a regrind? If so, I will probably never be able to ID it. I am pretty good friends with a race engine shop, and they can not tell what it is either. Bill
Set up your dial indicator and degree wheel and degree it out....then you'll know what the grind is regardless of who made it. Don't have a degree wheel?? Then here is a link to a downloadable, printable version.....glue it to a disposable pie tin, plastic picnic plate, small pizza pan, cheap frisbee...any thing close in size you can put a bolt hole through the center and have it hold up to an hour's work. http://www.tavia.com/free_degree_wheel.html Don't have a dial indicator and magnetic base??...then you aren't much of a Hotrodder, get yourself to a Harbor Freight or go online, both can be had for about $30 package price. Get the .050" lifter rise opening and closing points for both an intake and exhaust lobes, and the peak lift....then do the math to get your Duration @.050" degrees, lobe centerlines, and lobe separation angle, and BOOM, you know exactly what it is. See this question all the time....and this is the only absolutely right answer your going to get short of a random someone actually recognizing all those engraved numbers....or taking it out to a speed shop that has a Cam Doctor to digitize it.
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