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Jul 13, 2005 | 01:29 PM

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Jul 13, 2005 | 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by NIevo

Everyone keeps saying to go with cam gears but I thought there wasnt much of an improvement with gears? Am I wrong or is there some other reason to get them?
Thanks for all the help.

Cam gears won't do that much by themselves ... but ... for example if you go with a slightly more agressive setup like HKS 272/272 cams, then the camgears allow you to adjust them independently from each other. For example a -4i/-1e setting on the 272 cams will give you better top end and stock-like idle. Cam gears basically allow you to fine-tune where your camshafts will make power, allowing you to move the powerband by a few hundred rpms in either direction, as a side-effect, it also happens to affect your idle quality (better or worse, depending on how you have them adjusted).

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