[wd45gto]

any body run or have run a crane fireball h 294b cam. 294/304 .488/.508
have a 421 4 speed or maybe a 400.
just wondering if it a good go fast cam

[PAUL K]

Yes, one of the best street performance cams ever! IMO

[J.C.you]

What I am going with in my 64 GTO tri power 389 project.

[ponjohn]

What are the .050 numbers?

[PAUL K]

Originally Posted by ponjohn

What are the .050 numbers?

234/244 112 LSA

[455firebird1969]

I bought a used engine that supposedly had a crane fireball cam in it back in the seventies. It was a 400 with a torker intake. That thing didn't have much off idle, but up above about 4000 it pulled hard.

[hojs69]

This may sound sad to some, but have had the same cam in my street 69' F-Bird for ~ 30 years (put in 85' I think). Runs 11.60's @ 117.

I feel there is more room to optimize to achieve a lower ET if / when I get off my duff.

[PAUL K]

Originally Posted by hojs69

This may sound sad to some, but have had the same cam in my street 69' F-Bird for ~ 30 years (put in 85' I think). Runs 11.60's @ 117.

I feel there is more room to optimize to achieve a lower ET if / when I get off my duff.

I don't know your combination but I don't think 11.6 @ 117 sounds bad at all. There are a lot of guys going slower with hydraulic rollers.

[Blued and Painted]

Is this cam from the Fireball Roberts era? Or just marketing?

[Half-Inch Stud]

I recall the 294 B was desired over the 294 A.

In the 80's I got a used 294 B and with 1.5s, and a Torker I, it ran okay in my 428 TH400 & 3.90/4.11 rear.

Next step was the ISKY Magnum 320 HYD with 252/252 @ .050 : what an amazing full range cam on the 428 @ 455. I attributed the amazements to the 104 LCs.

Tried customizing a couple Ultradynes with 104 LCs. And installed with 4 deg adv.
--> Does anybody run Street/Strip with 104 LCs?

Last High-Compression step was the Lunati 30705 (SPC2-320) with 245/255 @ : best off-idle I've felt on the 455 ran 11.0 ET, 123 MPH with ported D-port iron. Simply the best off-idle, cleanest plugs, temps, manners, performance from my efforts. Other folks have their favorites, perhaps same or better, maybe worse.

Since gone to low compression & cam in Sig with last outings showing 12.2ET in 3850 Lb on 89 Octane.

It's all in the Signature.

[pontiacreddz]

I used a Crane Fireball cam in a 1979 Trans Am a 400 4 speed with a street dominator Holley intake 750 Holley carburetor 4:11 rear headman headers car had a great rump to it and ran 11:70's and could drive it any where

[mgarblik]

That series of cams was developed in the late 1960's early 1970's. I think Fireball Roberts had met an untimely end in a Ford Stock Car a few years earlier. Not a bad cam choice. Much better stuff was devevoped by Harold Brookshire around the same time. If you have good heads, it would benefit from some additional rocker arm ratio from a 1.5. If you already have one, I would run it.

[Cliff R]

Nice cam in a 455, it will also like at least 10 to 1 compression.

I've known several folks to use that cam in 455 builds with well prepared iron heads, and all of them ran well into the 11's with their cars...........Cliff

[NeighborsComplaint]

Those specs sound very similar to the current Crane HIT 284281 I have in my 455.

[Jack Ferris]

I loved the old Fireball in my 69 Judge. Back in the early 80's nobody could get past me. If I could find another one I'd use it again.