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Old 04-27-2012, 02:07 AM
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The ms4 cam is not going to be very dd friendly...you don't need the biggest donkey dick of a cam you can get your hands on. The ms4 will give you tons of top end power but lack in the lower end.

For a dd, you need a smaller cam that will make power under the curve. I'm not sure how often your car sees 6k rpm's on The way to work and the grocery store but the ms4 lives up there.
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Look around in the dyno section, study some dyno graphs and compare thoes graphs for both the ms series cam's and smaller cams. Particularly the torque curve. A broad flat torque curve is going to be the best setup for a car that mainly sees the street.
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Yeah it's not all about which cam makes the most power. Its about being set up right. My car was a DD, my cam was 228/232 595/595 112 LSA. It loped like crazy but it made good power under the curve and was driveable every day. Also, you doing any suspension work to the car? Its pretty important to put all that power to the ground.




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