Help with Cam Specs
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Help with Cam Specs
I am considering putting in a Cam with these specs. I will also be adding heads. What do you guys think about how my car will run? Thanks for the help!!!
Duration 226/234
Lift on intake .554
Exhaust .575
LSA 114
Duration 226/234
Lift on intake .554
Exhaust .575
LSA 114
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Re: Help with Cam Specs (shftn6)
I personally do not think anything above a 224/224 duration (with stock cubes) will do anything except create driveability problems (especially on a daily driver). If you have a 6-speed and plan on doing programming, get a 224/224 112......should run very strong and have the perfect balance for street/strip power.
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Re: Help with Cam Specs (shftn6)
This is an ARE camshaft that they use on some of there extreme Stage II heads/cam packages. This is the same camshaft that I have run in my car for the past year but I have a 112LSA instead of the 114 you mention.
It performs excellent and is actually very streetable as long as you get the PCM programming done right. It sounds very very mean and has a very lumpy idle. It has great midrange power, peaks in HP at 6200rpm and holds strong to 6500rpm. The torque peaks at 4700rpm. I would not recommend this camshaft for an A4 car unless you have a very high stall speed torque converter. The 114 LSA may make this cam peak in power 100-200rpm higher and might take away a bit of the lumpy idle, but it should work pretty good.
Also, you will definitely want a set of high flowing heads to match up with it and do not plan on passing emission tests :)
Neverenuf on the forum ran this cam for many months as well and misses the lumpy sound it had since he has moved to a more mellow sounding cam in his MTI 422ci stroker.
Where did you hear about this cam? Were you speaking with ARE?
[Modified by MattG, 1:33 PM 1/11/2002]
It performs excellent and is actually very streetable as long as you get the PCM programming done right. It sounds very very mean and has a very lumpy idle. It has great midrange power, peaks in HP at 6200rpm and holds strong to 6500rpm. The torque peaks at 4700rpm. I would not recommend this camshaft for an A4 car unless you have a very high stall speed torque converter. The 114 LSA may make this cam peak in power 100-200rpm higher and might take away a bit of the lumpy idle, but it should work pretty good.
Also, you will definitely want a set of high flowing heads to match up with it and do not plan on passing emission tests :)
Neverenuf on the forum ran this cam for many months as well and misses the lumpy sound it had since he has moved to a more mellow sounding cam in his MTI 422ci stroker.
Where did you hear about this cam? Were you speaking with ARE?
[Modified by MattG, 1:33 PM 1/11/2002]
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Re: Help with Cam Specs (MattG)
VetteWrench is doing a h&c install for me and we are using A.R.E. heads. This is the cam Brian recommended to me. I am trying to educate myself before I make a final decision on a cam. You guys are scaring me about this cam choice now. I wanted around a 100 RWHP increase, as smooth of an idle as possible (but this is not a huge concern), no stalling problems and no emmission problems.
Matt, do you think there is a better choice that will go with the A.R.E. heads? Brian is doing the computer programming so that won't be a problem.
Thanks!!!
Matt, do you think there is a better choice that will go with the A.R.E. heads? Brian is doing the computer programming so that won't be a problem.
Thanks!!!
