Armond, the cam is a virgin new-old-stock "late" style cast-iron 302 military cam from Memphis Equipment, not the early steel unit. vw cams are iron also.
maybe it's heresy to say so here; but for all the work that 235 chevy guys are encouraged amongst their peers to invest into those engines, they are actually more handicapped, in all ways plausible, in terms of true potential than a 248 gmc.
here is my take on it...most of you folks who are gmc guys tend to buy into the cult of hierarchy of the 270 and 302 engines and that's that. the 248 is a bit like the fat kid who gets picked last for battleball...but, if you think about it, for no real good reason except he has a couple of bigger older brothers. he has a decent amount of strength and he has his own virtues...to carry the analogy a bit further. the same situation has existed for pontiac 350's for years, but now scarcity is starting to take its toll on larger poncho v8's, so now you start to see rotating assembly parts development for the 350's more recently.
i hate to see a decent piece of american iron get scrapped as the result of a pecking order. isn't it enough of a shame that STILL so many gmc inlines get pulled in favor of a chevy bent-eight that we can't embrace the lowly 248?
