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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 07:55 AM
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Has anybody upgraded their heads and left the stock cam? How much power was the head upgrade worth?

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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 08:22 AM
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It's rare for someone to swap heads before the cam. You would gain more power from a bigger cam than ported heads, the heads give you the power when you have a bigger cam that allows them to flow. It would be interesting to see what kind of gains ported heads with a stock cam give though.
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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 01:14 PM
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I'm interested because I want a minimum impact to drivability. Figure the heads wont cause any loss of idle quality. I'd consider a mild cam afterwards.

So anybody tried it?
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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 01:16 PM
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PK 01 SOM WS6 did this for reasons not known, and came up with about 370. Gained about 15/15. Do a search for it, and youll find the previous thread.
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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 03:33 PM
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My brother did it on a 99 Firehawk.Picked up .4and 4mph.
CNC heads.
Hope this helps <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Old Jun 27, 2002 | 10:45 PM
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Sure does. Thanks!
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Old Jun 29, 2002 | 03:12 AM
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I did heads and then cam I didnt dyno it though but the sotp meter went way up.They were milled 30thous and are 5.7 heads.
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Old Jun 29, 2002 | 08:31 AM
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Might also add in 1.85 rockers if your going to just to heads, will give more lift and a little more duration for maybe another 5-10rwhp with little or no effect of driveability.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by G2 LS1:
<strong>PK 01 SOM WS6 did this for reasons not known, and came up with about 370. Gained about 15/15. Do a search for it, and youll find the previous thread.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">PK did it because someone shipped him a stock cam by mistake...and rather wait, he put it all back together with the stocker.
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Old Jul 4, 2002 | 04:17 PM
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I did it and gained about 20RWHP
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