The end all discussion of cam gear
Originally Posted by Randy
No, when you degree the car the way Harold does it, cam gears always end up being in weird numbers, so Al decided on my car and the other guy to simply put the cam gears in 0 (remove the degree of course) and like I said I lost 28 whp and the other guy almost 50 whp (48) so degreeing the cams definately works, specially in the hands of someone that has been doing this for more than 20 years on all type of cars, my car was the first EVO he did and on pump gas the same day we took the car to the dyno and tested it and it gave my car some interesting numbers, specially in tq @22 psi it gave my car 23 pounds of tq. and almost 12 whp. That day when Al was here, Harold decided to see what happened if he moved the cam gears on my car just a bit, and the final result was 356 whp @ 384 pounds of tq. along with Al's reflash. Like I said, talk to Al he saw it first hand and can explain in detail how it was done since he was very observative on the process. Since of mechanic the only thing I know is change bolt-ons I have no idea what they did to my car, I only know it works like a charm and my car is now a totally different beast, specially on high boost and C16.
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The mystery behind the magic is, as Ted B noted earlier, is moving the power curve up or down and/or maximizing the area under the curve for a particular cam/engine combo. Some people will change lobe centers on cams depending on the particular road course they are running and sometimes match it to gearing as well. The article quoted above is just about correctly installing a cam to factory spec rather than tuning the motor for a specific application.
BTW, I have been using adjustable cam gears since the mid 70's
, never had a failure - road, rally and track - and I wouldn't consider running a tuned engine without them.
BTW, I have been using adjustable cam gears since the mid 70's
, never had a failure - road, rally and track - and I wouldn't consider running a tuned engine without them.
Originally Posted by DynoFlash
Randy are you comming to NJ tommorow ?
As Randy has said - each car requires individulaized checking and adjustment of cam gears. They are NOT all the same. There is car to car variance.
As Randy has said - each car requires individulaized checking and adjustment of cam gears. They are NOT all the same. There is car to car variance.
I didn't believe it at first but after i saw the dyno results i was pretty impressed, harold can do his thing. I think is a little expensive but that's just me. Still, he woked his *** off and the torque and whp results were evident. I think for the cost, cam gears are a good thing to have in terms of tuning, plus i'm gonna be running 272's so in terms of idle, i'll need all the help i can get 
Saludos Randy
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