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Old 03-15-2019, 10:26 AM   #28
davepl
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Re: Thoughts on the stock 402?

I'm probably the only guy on this board who has built one exactly to stock specifications with the stock heads and cam and dyno'd the thing on an actual engine dyno:

My take-away is that the cam is for tractors. No joke, it's really made to work well with a PTO. So any performance notion will come with a new cam. Then pocket porting the intakes of the little peanut heads. Then you're looking at better heads and intake.

With better heads and intake, it's a fine motor. With the stock cam/heads/intake it set up to idle and make torque.
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