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    Cam identification.

    Ok I will be the first to admit I do not know much about picking a camshaft. But here is the back story. I had a 782 head on my Daytona head was warped when head gasket blew. I got a rebuilt head with a factory 90 turbo can in it. I installed it on the car. Now that I am getting more familiar with these engines I got curious as to what cam was in that head. I pulled it off the old head and started looking at it found markings c1, and F4 on the cam. I tried finding out the lift by measuring the base circle from the width of the lobe with a micrometer. I got these numbers 1.62 and 1.41 now if you subtract them you get 0.21. Which I don't think is right at all. Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong. I'm trying to learn this stuff but does not seem to be going smoothly. Does the f4 mean that it's a fwd f4 cam? Thanks for the help/input.

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    Re: Cam identification.

    There are 2 ways to ID a cam, a degree wheel and a dial indicator or remove the cam and find a grinder with a cam Doctor. The factory didn't put any markings etc on any cams except some are stamped "turbo" on the drivers end.
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    Re: Cam identification.

    Numbers and letters on a 2.2/2.5 cam shaft means nothing.

    You can tell if the camshaft is a roller cam shaft or slider by looking, everything else would be a guess.

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