Suggested stall for converter

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230/230 is the same thing as an old school comp 280H Magnum cam, but your cam looks like it is on a 108 LSA instead of the 280H's 106 LSA. Comp's website says

"Hydraulic-Great for Street Machines. Needs stall, headers & gears. Rough idle."

Now my thinking on this is that you're sticking it in a 307. Cams act bigger in smaller engines, right? That means it will be choppier and have less "manners" in a 307.

I'm saying that the cam isn't optimally matched to your setup. When most people talk sbc cams, they refer to them by the advertised duration numbers. Yours is a 292. When I thought of a small cam for a 307, I was thinking 252. There are about 10 cam sizes in between those two.

You can put together a small inch smallblock with a biggish cam, but you need enough static compression to make power with it. You may be around 8.5:1. The more duration, generally the more CR you need. It is a 292 cam, this is what Isky says about their 292 cam...in a 350

"292 Mega Hyd.
Compression Ratio: 10-11:1
Rough Idle
RPM range:3000-7000
recomended gear ratio: 4.11/4.56
Carburetor rating: 650-780
Combination Hi-Performance Use/Bracket"

A stock cam for a 307 probably has specs something like this:

Duration @ .050" = 190°/190°
Lift @ .050" = .390"/.400"
LSA: 114


Look at this page, it calls out the specs on your erson cam...

http://www.pbmperformance.com/store.php?catId=327

All the sbc cams above it are smaller. I'm not telling you not to put it in, I'm saying that it isn't small.