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Nov 13, 2004 | 08:48 AM

trigger1

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Finished up 224 cam install.

Well finished up last night about 5. She fired right up and then fell flat on her face. Finally after a lil tinkering we got it to hold an idle. she is sitting right around 700rpms at idle and man does this thing sound good. I am using the stock catback to keep it somewhat quiet and make the gf happy, but a cutout is going in. Just wanted to say if you are thinking about doing a cam swap but don't know if you have the mechanical ability just follow the JMX write up. It breaks everything down and is very easy to follow.

BTW I am really enjoying my SES light freaking out since I pulled the egr junk.

Thanks to buckeyeroc for letting me borrow the ghettotech springtool along with pen mags, longer pulley bolt and his sawzall.

Nov 13, 2004 | 10:00 AM

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Congrats man! It's a good feeling once you get to fire her up for the first time huh?

Nov 13, 2004 | 11:32 AM

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video clip at idle ?

Nov 13, 2004 | 06:35 PM

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Glad you got it in alright, hopefully I will be installing one pretty soon. If you could get some video id love to see it, enjoy the slight power increase

Nov 13, 2004 | 07:09 PM

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Congrats on the install! Keep us posted on how it runs, SOP, etc.

Nov 13, 2004 | 07:40 PM

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224 is a great cam.

Nov 13, 2004 | 08:09 PM

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Well after heat cycling the springs yesterday I went out to the dragstrip today. Stock tune, stock muffler(no cat back waiting to put true duals on and dragstrip today was a spur of the moment thing so I just tossed it on), and stock rev limiter it trapped 110mph.

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Nov 13, 2004 | 08:25 PM

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vid yet? which 224 is it? Im looking into something like that for my WS6..

Nov 13, 2004 | 09:02 PM

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did anyone besides me wonder what the sawzall was used for on the cam install

Nov 13, 2004 | 09:24 PM

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did anyone besides me wonder what the sawzall was used for on the cam install

He could only get the stock cam halfway out

j/k

Have fun with the cam. I love mine too, makes some good power also.

Nov 13, 2004 | 10:37 PM

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I like mine too. Makes pretty good power with all the bolt ons.

Nov 13, 2004 | 11:29 PM

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sawzall was used on the stock exhaust. I put a set of Mac midlength's on too. Cam is a 224/224 .563/.563 112lsa.

Nov 14, 2004 | 12:45 AM

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figured it was for something to cut some piping out of the way.

Nov 14, 2004 | 05:39 AM

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Heres what mine did with all the boltons except a ASP.

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Nov 14, 2004 | 06:12 AM

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I love the flat trq curve on this cam.

Nov 14, 2004 | 09:30 AM

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I love the flat trq curve on this cam.

Me too!!

Congrats bandit!!!

Nov 14, 2004 | 01:49 PM

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Congrats! I remember how happy I was after I installed mine. After adding some heads you will really start to smile! The TR224 112LSA has a great flat curve and makes very nice lowend to boot. My graph shows 300rwtq @ 2200rpms, 325rwtq @ 2500rpms, 351rwtq @ 3000rpms with a peak of 391rwtq @ 4900rpms.