>>>*Just for giggles...Suppose we were to walk the cam lobe centers apart by..say, one to two degrees?

I would just regrind one and try that but the lobe shape sorta defeats it, plus any reduction of base circle creates all sorts of valve train geometry worms...

**Hmmm...Need me a longer valve..by about .030" or so...
**Hmmm...Then we can regrind the cams...


*More lobe spread tends to flatten the bottom end and bring up the torque. Then we could fix that funky valve seat on the exhaust side, which still looks screwy to me.

Just some thoughts, I haven't done the math to see what part runs into another part yet.

Logically a soft bottom end is either valve timing or too much port size...*well, rich and timing will do that, too, but that ain't it....*EB