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Old Oct 16, 2012 | 11:39 PM
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full bolt on with heads and turbo. problem is motor wasnt built for turbo suppose to be cam and head car. the question is how much hp is he losing from a turbo cam??? he has cc306 in now is this a bad cam for a stage 3 t 70? and are 36# injectors enough?
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 12:15 AM
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full bolt on with heads and turbo. problem is motor wasnt built for turbo suppose to be cam and head car. the question is how much hp is he losing from a turbo cam??? he has cc306 in now is this a bad cam for a stage 3 t 70? and are 36# injectors enough?
306 is a terrible cam for boost - it is lazy with lots of overlap. He is literally shooting boost out the exhaust.
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 12:24 AM
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is that why the waste gate stays open and doesnt start spooling until 3000 rpms
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 12:29 AM
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he has a cc 503 cam laying around is that any better.. and which company is the best for a boosted cam in ur opinion?? thanks
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 04:40 AM
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Perhaps he should start over and do it right. **** if the motor was built for N/A you could certainly make MORE power by actually tuning it and putting a decent set of heads/valvetrain on it without all the hassle of a ****-poor turbo install.
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 04:57 AM
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More than likely that cam will need to be changed to a much more BOOST friendly cam. I also doubt that motor has Boost friendly compression for a driver that is!
so, short of building a completely different motor for what you are contemplating just use that motor get a better cam profile add some N2O.
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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 07:36 AM
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36lb injectors are about half what you need..........pull the motor and drop the compression and change the cam.........do it right dont hack done end of story
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Puck
306 is a terrible cam for boost - it is lazy with lots of overlap. He is literally shooting boost out the exhaust.
Tell that to SRZ. He's running a 306, stock ported heads, and an F1 and is making a very easy 720 to the wheels.
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Originally Posted by Fastbird93
Tell that to SRZ. He's running a 306, stock ported heads, and an F1 and is making a very easy 720 to the wheels.
Overlap bleeding boost is not as big an issue at high rpm with tons of boost as it is at low rpm with modest boost levels.

Two very different motors.
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