Just found out I'm cam illiterate!

[Mach 1]

Originally posted by Unit 5302

High lift, short duration, wide LSA. Street/strip cam. XE series cams fit in here for the most part. Good low end power, solid midrange, lacking a little higher up, but most cars don't run that high anyway.

Sounds like a decent cam for your run of the mill , street EFI 5.0, from mildly to moderately modified.

I still cant understand why you hate these cams so much. Why would they try to "compensate" for poor duration with valve lift? Why wouldnt they just give the cam more duration and less lift if that were to get them the same results? Maybe they like that particular group of cams to have mid duration, high lift because they work good in 5.0s with roller cams? Maybe, just maybe....