help me find cam
06-12-2008, 10:30 PM
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help me find cam i what to put a cam in my car but i have no idea what to go with it is my dd 99 firehawk a4 52.000 miles on her i have lt,s cutout and little thing doen but now i whant a cam would like to make 410hp thanks for you time
06-13-2008, 03:21 PM
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410 hp might be a high goal for cam-only, though it has been done before. I think you should be looking more toward 370-380 rwhp, especially for an A4 car that is a daily driver; Streetability is different for everyone; it depends on what you can tolerate on a daily basis and how good your tune is; the tune gets the most out of the cam and the conditions you want the car to run as. With that said, I know a guy that runs an MS3 in his 2000 Firehawk, and I run the Torquer V.2 in my Z28; we both have ported LS* series heads (his are LS6 and mine are the 5.3L..) and we both get around 430-440 to the wheels with manual trannies. Don't forget to look at and update your valvetrain (springs, pushrods, blah blah blah) What is your intake manifold? The stock LS1 manifold?
If you want to get towards 410 rwhp on an A4 its going to take some more moola. You'd be better off getting it all done at once if you have the time and money; An intake manifold is a definite need to get that high, either an LS6 for a cam-only car or a Fast 90 or Fast 92 manifold for cam and heads. There is a good selection of heads, intake manifolds, and camshaft packages for sale through many of our sponsors; All in all, my head/cam swap ran upwards of $4500
but its a lot faster!
If you want to get towards 410 rwhp on an A4 its going to take some more moola. You'd be better off getting it all done at once if you have the time and money; An intake manifold is a definite need to get that high, either an LS6 for a cam-only car or a Fast 90 or Fast 92 manifold for cam and heads. There is a good selection of heads, intake manifolds, and camshaft packages for sale through many of our sponsors; All in all, my head/cam swap ran upwards of $4500
but its a lot faster!
06-16-2008, 01:33 PM
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if you mean what if you just did a cam, that saves a lot of money if you can do the installation and valvetrain upgrades yourself, and nets a good bit of additional power. You would most likely be looking around anywhere from 350-380 rwhp depending on the size of the cam and your intake manifold; with that LS1 manifold it will be lower; an LS6 manifold will be around $300-$350, and the whole cam/valvetrain upgrade package will be around $600 I'd assume; so it will be about $1000 total unless you want to upgrade more stuff while you're in there like the oil pump and timing chain.
06-16-2008, 03:54 PM
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it will be tough to make 410 rwhp cam only on a auto. you will have to run a huge *** cam!! but with a huge cam comes a huge stall to compliment it, and more gears....etc..etc.. remember though your an auto. so stuffing a huge cam that likes to rev high will kill your tranny. honestly if i were u dude, i would do all the boltons like lid, headers and such and just beef up the tranny. then i would throw a cam and heads...