You find it unusual for a cam to have advance ground into it? Many (I'd even say 'most) cams do. Look at the LCE grinds.
Hey Plainview,
I am a long way from any kind of camshaft expert, and I am not an engine builder.
For the past 15+ years I've looked at and tested in my software probably well over 100 different cam specs and profiles - 95% for the Toyota 20 and 22 engines.
LCE's "biggest" cam is their outlaw cam. The specs appear pretty radical for a 22 and obviously designed for a seriously built race engine. The cam has only a .8 degree of cam timing advance... that is point 8. It does have a radical 27 degrees of overlap.... it will probably sound very loppy, and the engine probably would not idle below 1800 to 2000 RPMs.
I could be wrong and perhaps the data that Engine Analyzer is generating is off, but there are no camshaft profiles that I've looked at so far for the Toyota 20/22s that show any degree of cam timing either retarded or advanced.. all are showing straight up zero.
Gnarls.