ok heres the finished product...got the gauges from whitegauges.net..super easy to put on too..

 

looks good. matches a bit better than stock. since you have a tach, what is the maximum rpm you have seen. the reason i ask is i want to get a new cam but the one kit i was looking at says it is only good from idle to 4400 rpm which did not seem very high to me.

 

The cam is more dependent on how you are going to use vehicle...

That sounds like a towing type cam which is great for a daily driver, towing, general use type of driving. I can say that my truck that I use for daily driving, towing, and moderate off-road I very rarely ever have it over 4k rpm and that is only when I'm "beating" on it..

1988 W150, 360 w\727, 4.56 gears, 35" tires

 

That dash turned out nice!! Great job

Here is what I did with mine (excuse the wiper arm on he dash, I was still putting he driveline back in):


http://photobucket.com/RamRebuild

 

^that is nice

that is pretty much what i was looking at. the only thing that has bothered me is that a cam on summit with almost identical specs says it has an operating range of 1200-5000rpm. it is all such a pain in the A$$.
here is the kit i was looking at

and the cam that looks to almost have the same specs on summit

sorry for thread jacking.

 

I have a tach on my truck wolfie, and sometimes I do beat the snot out of it. It has seen 5500 a few times. But it is very rare and felt like it was going to come apart. Nothing bad has happened, but I wouldn't bet it could do it again. It wants to shift at around 4500 by itself floored, but its been in mud and in other various situations where I was holding it into a lower gear and got really wound up. I'd say 5000 is really the working redline. Yours is a roller block too, but carburated, right?

 

They want $92 shipping for the eBay kit - wow...

The operating range listed for cams is where they will perform their best...they will still operate outside of that range but not as well...generally; a cam with a lower operating range will be better for towing\daily driving (generally) and a cam with a higher operating range will be more for high-performance where they will continue to pull and produce power at higher RPM's.

Without additional modifications\work a stock engine will not benefit from a much higher performance cam kit.

If you would like to discuss further, you can start another thread so we aren't thread jacking

 

my truck has a 6901 summit racing cam,eddy 600 carb with intake, 2.5 inch exause no cats, msd coil and a electric fan...i dont pull no more then 4500 rpm...my shift light is set at 4200....

i haul scrap with mine alot...sometimes i like to race these dumbasses with their "fast" hondas....then go say u got beat by a stock 318..which it basically is

heres a vid of it runnin with my old 10 series...i have a single 40 back on it now...sound much better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wWSY...ETmMr6ZTodLO1V

 

So it sounds like the stock transmission will shift at 4500ish. If one would want to change this to say, 6500 RPM, what's the way to do it?

BTW, Fast, really diggin' your gauges setup, and that's exactly what I was looking for. Just ordered the gauges and a-pillar pods last night. Going to install them when I get the old 318 out to have plenty of working room in the engine bay. Thanks for the pics.

 

The torqueflite trans was never designed to be used at that RPM. At 6500 RPM input the 2.2 to 1 ratio would give 14300 RPM at the front clutch retainer. The OEM retainer is made of powdered iron and could come apart akin to something like a hand grenade. It is doubtful that even an SFI certified safety shield would contain that. A total rebuild of the trans with race capable parts would be necessary for the torqueflite to handle such an RPM range.

Most serious racers that are not compelled to use the torqueflite adapt to the Chevy Powerglide behind a Chrysler engine.