Tell Me What CAM to buy!!!!

[88GTMustang]

need a cam to put into my motor before i put it into the car, this is what I got.

88 GT
GT40P - heads
GT40 - upper and lower intakes
plus some other minor bolt ons,
Car is a stick
will be converting to Mass air
Looking for cam under 200$$
wanna use stock springs since under 40k on them
Want a good idle nothin too wild
Powerfull street cam
No emmisions tests

What do u guys recomened?? thinkin about E cam but ive been reading the posts and no one seems to like it anymore, What should i get!?!?!

 

[Matts89LX5.0]

E cam. It would be pretty much the GT 40 crate motor. OR you could get a custom cam. I've heard good things about FTI. Good luck with your choice.

Matt

 

[wisconsinboy]

call comp or crane tell them what you got and they'll set somethin up.

 

[trendkilllx]

I heard the tfs stage 1 cam is good.

 

[sn9550]

Forget about the mass air conversion and get the Crower 15511. Powered By Ford sells it for $259. It would also work well with valve springs.

 

[88GTMustang]

Forget about the mass air conversion and get the Crower 15511. Powered By Ford sells it for $259. It would also work well with valve springs.

what do ya mean forget about the mass air? i thought it is basically mandatory for the coversion with all the non stock 5.0 parts i have

 

[sn9550]

You don't have to convert with those parts. Just use a cam with a wide LSA i.e. 114-115 and a [email protected] or less duration. The Crower will work as well as a couple Comp Cams. I think they are 264XR and HR. These cams have a .510 lift so not as good for the stock springs. You can also run 24# injectors. Make sure you have an AFPR and reajust your TPS. If you do a search on www.50tech.com on speed density cams you'll find lots of info.

 

[5.0Droptop]

what do ya mean forget about the mass air? i thought it is basically mandatory for the coversion with all the non stock 5.0 parts i have

You will not need maf if you use the crower 15511 cam.
SD will work fine with heads cams and intakes Nitrous etc. You just need to be carful which cam you use. The Comp cams NX264hr is a great sd cam so is the crower 15511 there are some others. You need a wide lsa 114-115 lsa is good.

 

[5.0Droptop]

You don't have to convert with those parts. Just use a cam with a wide LSA i.e. 114-115 and a [email protected] or less duration. The Crower will work as well as a couple Comp Cams. I think they are 264XR and HR. These cams have a .510 lift so not as good for the stock springs. You can also run 24# injectors. Make sure you have an AFPR and reajust your TPS.

We must have typed this at same times LOL

 

[sn9550]

50droptop - now he has two confirmations

 

[88GTMustang]

50droptop - now he has two confirmations

lol thanks guys!

 

[Draginmadd]

I have a e303 in my 88.dosent idle well all the time but soon to convert to mass air.nice cam under 200bucks at summit.

 

[90mustangGT]

Definatly convert to MAF first, your going to need to do it eventually, and it has alot of advantages. I would suggest doing a spring swap even with the stock cam, one reason the power drops off is the valves start floating at about 5600rpm on the stock cam. I knew a guy with the F cam on stock springs, had valve float at 3500rpm, eventually one of the springs broke and gernaded the engine.

Oh yeah, the original question, what cam. Under $200 your going to settle for a FMS Alphebet cam or a TFS cam. Maby you can find a used one. I got the B cam for $50 and it doesn't run too bad, but not a good daily driver cam.

 

[88stangmangt]

i would just do a cheap junkyard mass air conversion to get it outta the way then you can open your cam choices up a bit.