Camshaft OEM

Seems like the lift and duration are a little hot for a stock headed car. I think 220 at .060 is probably more appropriate and the lift would probably be best under .520. I'm assuming the heads are stock that is. You will want new springs, something under 300lb rate would be ok. You don't want to go much more with that setup. he stock rockers might work, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with them.

All in all, you won't get tons of performance by just upgrading the cam without doing something with the heads.

what heads are you running?

that cam would be a total waste with a E7 head or un-ported gt40 head. For the E7 heads the stock cam with some 1.7rr is about as much lift as they can handle (around 480). With un-ported gt40 heads you want to look for a cam with around .500 lift. Both heads will like a split patt. cam that gives a little more lift and dur. to the exh. side.

I just wanted to say when working in the motor.

A few thousands of an inch can make a huge difference :Word:

About those pr's with an unknown length

You wanna move from the unknown to the known before using them

If you are gonna go for more power than simple bolt ons

I would agree with John about if you pick a cam correctly .........
you could get a gain with cam only .... but not much.

however .....

Be sure you make your cam choice based upon future plans
or
You'll end up having to upgrade the cam for the better parts

I'd tell you this

You wanna do heads and cam at the same time as it is just too much
work to do both separately and you will have to buy gaskets, oil
oil filter, coolant, etc twice.

If you can do the intake along with the heads and cam ........
that makes it all the more better ......
cause you don't have tear into the motor any more

Grady

BlackPearl955.0 said:

Ok chacked the pushrods and they are the same as stock length. Any cam recomendations that will work with my setup then? I have never really looked into the cam thing so it is all a bit new. I would like something that would put out alot of torque between 1000rpm and 6000rpm, and not have my car dropping dead after 5000rpm.

Click to expand...

Good low & mid range can be found with the better OEM stuff
such as Cobra & GT40 parts

If you want all that A N D power all the way to 6k before drop off .....
that is gonna be harder with the OEM stuff

Just start looking at all the dyno charts you can find and it will
all become crystal clear to you fairly quickly

Be sure to notice if the pull was done with a Dyno Jet or
Mustang Dyno and if Dyno Jet was used ... was it caled with
SAE or Standard values. These differences can make two
similar combos look very different.

Grady

The most tq. you will get with the oem stuff will be with the stock gt lower ported, and playing with the cam's degree on install...most do a 2-4* setup vs. straight up cam setup along with 1.7rr to get alittle more powa.

Other than porting your heads or getting better heads (assuming you have gt e7 heads) you really cannot do much as far as "putting a cam in and making power to 6k with low end". Its going to take some better all around packages to do that.