Suggest a cam for new heads
12-26-2006, 09:03 AM
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Suggest a cam for new heads I have a set of Patriot's CNC'ed 243 castings being delivered today. My car is an A4 with 3.23's and a 3500 stall. Right now its a DD, but hopefully will be a weekend/nice day car in the next month or so. I really don't want to go with one of the super high lift cams to conserve spring life. I'm leaning towards the MS3, but I've really only looked at TSP & Thunder Racing cams so far. If it's possible with the head/cam combo, I'll probably also go with .040 gaskets to lower compression a bit. May also install nitrous and 3.73's within the next year, so I'd like to future-proof the head/cam combo too.
12-26-2006, 11:28 AM
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i got the PP 243s also, i had a custom cam made for the set-up... i'm really pumped on custom cams, i can't wait to get my stuff installed to see what it'll do!
12-26-2006, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by XtreemeChaos
How did you go about figuring out what you wanted/needed in a custom cam?
Its not something you can do on your own. You get people here telling you to do what they did becasue what they did is best. When spec'ing a cam you need to take the whole setup into account. Not just heads and stall but compression, weight and exaust as well. I had LME spec me a cam when they built my short block. They use cam motion to grind it.
I have a 234/240 112 lsa .637/.641 but I wouldnt recomend it to you, I dont know a whole lot about stalls but I think yours would not work very well with my cam. Call a sponsor. Call a few sponsors and get different opinions. A custom ground cam is the best thing you can do.
I love the way my car perculates in the morning.