If you know the specs it should not be a problem to have one ground.
Its not as easy as that. some of you will know this from older posts, but here goes.
Some on here will remember the 446 I built for my own car. For that engine, I designed my own cam profile and asked a couple of US based companies to grind it. The answer from both was that the grind was not possible. Next step for me was to call in a favour from a UK based grinder. Two cams were made. One was for my 446, I've posted the dyno sheet from that a few times, ad the other as a spare. This spare ended up getting installed in this 496.
I can get copies made, but it will require a minimum order of 100. Even then, and assuming that the blanks can be bought, they will be expensive. So its just not feasible.
Uncle Joe.....Have you tried these guys? http://jonescams.com/ One of my Sprint car friends were talking about cams and he uses these guys and had nothing but great things to say about them.
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Perhaps what is happening on this one is that there are standard cam cores/blanks in a near-net shape (to minimize machining) that allow any ‘consumer’ cams to be ground from it. And this cam requires something outside of that profile, hence ‘not possible’ with existing cores, hence the need for custom cores, therefore qty 100 for custom blanks. Big race teams could of course afford a cam like this to be hogged from billet, or to buy that many cores, but not us little guys.
Uncle Joe – If you could perform such dyno magic with a GM LS-series, you’d have the market and the buyers you’d need to get in the endzone.