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Old Apr 1, 2007 | 06:49 PM
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a guy has 98 f-body with a t-rex ... patriot gold duals , 7.400 tr rods,ls6 intake,lid and filter and cai,bbk tb,lt ory ,msd wires and 3.7 rear .... t-56 and he did 388 rwhp tuned 12.5 afr and I think his rwtq is in the 36x stock muffler with a single cut out before the muffler.... stock short block.

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another guy with a cheatr cam said the cam card said the cam should be degreed with a degree wheel ...
he doesn`t know how his cam was installed (but the place he installed it doesn`t use a degree wheel) his question is
is it worth it to degree the cam? maybe there`s a 20 rwhp if it wasn`t degreed or something or by changing something by dergreeing?
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Old Apr 2, 2007 | 07:00 AM
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It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to degree it, but I highly doubt there's any significant amount of power to be gained by doing so, and I certainly don't think he would pick up 20 RWHP.

Were his numbers made on a DynoJet dyno? And (probably a stupid question) did he have the cutout open?

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Old Apr 2, 2007 | 07:12 AM
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It is always best to degree it so you will know the exact ICL. There isnt 20HP most likely in that though.
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Old Apr 2, 2007 | 07:40 AM
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with that cam...there is probably 10-15 horsepower on the table with a free flowing exhaust. Lose the stock junk.
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yes a dynojet and without the cutout it dies and doesn`t maintain the idle before the tune so he went and tuned it with it open (although it`s a 2 or 2.25 house plumping store pipe and threaded cap)

and police tickets forces sticking to the factory muffler.

thanks for the reply....I`ll call him and tell him what y`ll said.
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