1EVIL88VERT said:I have to disagree with daggar on this one those numbers are low. With just heads and a cam on my stock bottom end i put down 273/305 this was with stock TB, MAS, 19# inj, and intake....ditch those crap ass plugs as fast as you can, i have tried all the fancy plugs only to come back to cheap autolites. Do you have the correct length pushrods? Did you check the pushrod/ rocker angle when you set it up? Did you degree the cam or just install it dot to dot? What is your timing at?
The cam that was in my old combo was a lunati 41015...very similar to the trick flow stage one but with more duration. As for the valvetrain maybe he's not getting full lift somehow...very unlikely but it's something. Looking at that dyno graph it almost looks like the cam was installed retarded...yet another shot in the dark but it's something. The trick flow heads are better than my edelbrock's ( back then had 1.9/1.6 valves )on my old combo, I'm just trying to figure out were the 40hp he's down went. Did he say what his timing is set to? I know the trick flow heads like alot of timing, but that should only acount for maybe 10hp.Daggar said:Yeah... lots of people do. Still... I can't count the number of times I've seen it. Even on my own car. Right around 260 seems to be the magic number although there are certainly exceptions. I'd be interested in knowing what the cam was in your combo though. A similar setup to what the original poster has, along with a custom grind and custom tune would wake the whole thing up. Another thing that I noticed is that there's a track heat in combination with that relatively demure cam. Should make for some pretty lazy air going into that combo. I don't see much wrong with the other supporting mods listed. I don't see anything that talks about the valve train build though. Whaddya think Evil?
micks90lx said:I am not sure how the engine was put together, as in how the cam was put in....retarded or not, same with everything else. I bought this engine and had it assembled while I was still in Iraq. Maybe the guy didnt like me to much cause I had to keep asking about the status of my engine was going...."this is after not hearing a word from the guy for 3 weeks after he got my money"
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