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Old Nov 25, 2006 | 03:38 PM
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Can someone tell me how much of a gain I couls expect to get out of Cartek cam 118/222 sl114 and springs? And will it sound pretty good. Looking for a cheap cam setup and this came along. thanks
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If I were you I'd look into the Cartek 2x cam, I put down 390RWHP w/ airlid, LT's, ORY through a moser 12 bolt w/ 4.11's, and ran a best of 11.83 w/ a 1.9 60' on NItto 555r tires and 3700 lb raceweight.. Its sounds very good and drives like stock.
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Can someone tell me how much of a gain I couls expect to get out of Cartek cam 118/222 sl114 and springs? And will it sound pretty good. Looking for a cheap cam setup and this came along. thanks
I ran 11.8 with that cam m6 ported tb mac headers,ls6 intake,no cats pully, cartek stage 2 heads, and boarla cat back. 1998 ss camaro. the car had et street tires.
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~ 25>30rwhp
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