need advice on a good cam
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need advice on a good cam i need opinions on a good cam for my car. i have an 02 TA WS6 and i have new QTP headers with merge collectors and dual cutout y-pipe with no cats on the way and also i plan on getting JPR stage 2 heads. also on the way is a moser 12bolt with 4.10 gears. im just clueless on which cam to get.....my other mods are in my cig...thanks
Re: need advice on a good cam Kind of depends how big you want to go. I love my F1 - 230/226 on stock heads, and it really opens up with some ported heads. Most will say that is to big, but it all depends what you want.
Re: need advice on a good cam Don't get too hung up on cam lift/dur. #'s. It's all about matching the cam to the heads. Find out where the heads are flowing and not just .600 #'s. Mid lift #'s are just as important IMO. Then you have a real world guage of where to start when looking at different sticks.
Remember....there's also more to making power than high dur./lift. Advance/ramp rates/LSA/ICL/VE's have just as much to do with power, or the making of it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
Too many guys going out and buying that newest magic cam that makes 1,000,000,000 rwhp, and then go suicidal when they don't make what Joe Blow made with a smaller set-up <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" />
I agree w/Classic Collector. Know what you want the car to do, and research it. While opinions from others are a great guage of what you "could" expect w/a similar combo, understand all these cars are different and have their own personalities. No substitute for the education you'll gain by doing some real research, and learning not only what makes power, but why.
A good example of this is a guy who's combo is by todays standards "small" and told by all the LS1 Gods that his set-up is maxed out, but with some well thought out combinations of parts and tune, is making more rwhp, and trapping higher MPH than some of these big lift/dur. cam, and over priced heads cars are doing.
Didn't mean to go off on a rant, just want to see anyone who is after more power to know the why fors of the parts that are ultimately selected <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
Remember....there's also more to making power than high dur./lift. Advance/ramp rates/LSA/ICL/VE's have just as much to do with power, or the making of it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
Too many guys going out and buying that newest magic cam that makes 1,000,000,000 rwhp, and then go suicidal when they don't make what Joe Blow made with a smaller set-up <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" />
I agree w/Classic Collector. Know what you want the car to do, and research it. While opinions from others are a great guage of what you "could" expect w/a similar combo, understand all these cars are different and have their own personalities. No substitute for the education you'll gain by doing some real research, and learning not only what makes power, but why.
A good example of this is a guy who's combo is by todays standards "small" and told by all the LS1 Gods that his set-up is maxed out, but with some well thought out combinations of parts and tune, is making more rwhp, and trapping higher MPH than some of these big lift/dur. cam, and over priced heads cars are doing.
Didn't mean to go off on a rant, just want to see anyone who is after more power to know the why fors of the parts that are ultimately selected <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
