I am guessing you made him a mix tape of the sounds of your engine and told him to play it while drivingHe is wanting a solid lifter cam for that sound under the hood.
Funny story, I was helping my oldest son with his first car. It was an 82 Camaro that needed an engine transplant. I asked him what kind of a engine he wanted and he said one that sounds like solid lifter small block in my 65 Chevelle Whole different story how I did that.
Anyone that can get a 305 to produce has my admiration.No I put solid lifters on a hydraulic Crane cam I had. Ended up with around 25 degrees of advance in it. Hardest running 305 I ever drove.
That's funny reminds me of the 305 that was in my 64 K20 when I got it back from my brother, it was a motor I threw together to put in the truck since it was engineless when acquired, basically freshened up the shortblock with hone and rings found a set of the 1.84/1.50 valved small chambered H.O. heads and put an unremembered hyd. performance cam (knowing me probably one of the 350 horse 327 cams that were the rage for a while) with a performer intake and edelbrock carb. I did well enough that my brother was happy with it, but of course when I got it back that simply wouldn't do so I snagged a Gen V 454 out of the local pull and save and swapped it in using one of the 66-67 396 350 horse iron intakes with the Holley pattern and a set of Corvette exhaust manifolds. Took it for a test drive and was disgusted because I could barely tell any improvement over the 305 I pulled out,don't know if that spoke well for the 305 or if it spoke shit for the 454, but I almost immediately swapped on a set of GenV dumptruck 427T closed chamber large oval port heads in place of the open chamber peanut ports( used the valves from PP's to upgrade the dumptruck heads to 2.06/1.72), retrofitted a ZZ502 hyd. roller cam and reused the same intake and eddie 750 carb, only then did the BB impress me and exceeded my expectations.Anyone that can get a 305 to produce has my admiration.