Thinking of a cam change

[HotRoddin]

Originally Posted by 82 GT

Anyhow, it almost HAS to be the converter.

I have no doubt the converter is at least part of the problem. Whether it's all of the problem or not is a different story ? I know for sure, that motor should not be falling on it's face, on the other end at only 5500 RPM, not unless somebody shoved a potato up one of your header pipes

You're 60' is not good, are you spinning the tires that much, or does the car just not have the power to get you there any faster ???
With that motor, in that light a car with 4:10's, if you're hooking up, it should come off the line like a bull frog off a hot rock.
If it isn't ign. timing and it isn't valve timing and it isn't rocker ratio and it isn't valve lash and it isn't a carb thats way out and it isn't restricted exhaust and it isn't a vacuume leak?????

If I were you, i'd go back to the beginning, with an open mind (must have the open mind, otherwise you'll keep walking right past a mistake without ever catching it) and recheck the ign. timing the cam timing, check for a major vaccume leak, check that you really have the rockers you think you have, reset the lash, check the exhaust for restrictions, get another torque converter ! lol then if it's still falling on it's face on the big end at 5500 RPM I'm gonna have to ease over next to Dark_5.0 and start questioning your heads, because there ain't much left other than that

Keep us posted, this is the kind of thing we all learn from. It's just to bad it has to be from your misery

Rod