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Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:37 pm

i knew other were going to start doing it now!

my engine bay is gonna be insane whens it done

bennoz - they arent out of the wrapping yet cos they wanna keep them clean but when they take them out ill see if i can be there to get a snapshot for you..

what exactly are u looking for?

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:16 pm

Yeah no worries, I just wanted to see how much meat they took out of the ports (ie ground out)

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:30 pm

oh i see... Well these are the heads that were meant to be on their hybrid engine so it must be pretty good! But i'll try and get pics for you when they are taken out of the packaging

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:03 pm

so ah still waiting on those cams...
man this camshaft company RPW deals with is the worst run business i have ever heard of! Its been 3 months and theyve been made twice cos they stuffed up the first ones and now they keep on saying theyll send it to RPW tomorrow then after a few days theyre like we'll send it tomorrow! this has been happening for a month its just ridiculous im sick of waiting! ARGH!!!!!

just needed to vent my frustration...

on a positive note received my carbon fibre centre console which looks so good! its not a 100% fit but close enough!

If anyone sees a pair of ganador carbon fibre mirrors please pass it on to me!

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:07 am

so ah RPW told me today that if the camshaft company doesnt get back to them on monday and send out all the camshafts they have ordered theyre going to cancel all of them! thats over 30 camshafts...i guess its fair ennough cos its absolutely ridiculous me waiting 3.5 months for a set of camshafts... so apparently dave has another company lined up but that will take 6 months till they start selling again apparently...
im thinking chuck everything i have now in then when the camshafts finally arrive put them in afterwards. only thing is thatll cost a lot to pull apart the head again and tune it again so its not worth it... so i might just do the handling and extractors and wait ANOTHER 6 months to put the go fast bits in... its going to kill me... why would they do this to me, i want to cry...

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:13 pm

ok update is that the camshaft company sent out a batch apparently on tuesday so RPW should be receiving it on monday and apparently my camshafts are in there...

still sounds a bit dodgy and after this long i have the right to be skeptical... oh well we'll see...

if this doesnt work out my mechanic has someone that can make em in a couple of weeks

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:34 pm

AHEM!

Ladies and Gentlemen may i have your attention please!
It is confirmed that my camshafts have arrived at RPW and have finally been sent out to me!!!
They are currently in transit!!!
Finally this project can begin! They should be here sometime next week so get excited people! i know i certainly am! my god its been a painful wait but it will be worth it.
This is going to be amazing

Dan25 · Post by **Dan25** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:13 pm

Congrats mate. I'm really excited for you and can't wait to see what kind of performance gains you will achieve

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:35 pm

ok so RPW started off saying that the cams they were making me were custom and were made to suit the mods i was doing...
now they tell me its the stage 2 ones off their website http://www.rpw.com.au/Products/Engine%2 ... 6A12DM.htm and its the NA ones obviously...
does anyone know how much they differ from stock?

chuster · Post by **chuster** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:29 am

you'd probably want to find out the duration and lift of the stock fto cams before you can figure it out so you know how much its gonna change by.

I cant seem to find specs of the stock cams except for this but i cant make sense of it, can anyone help?

http://www.ftooc.org/?section=engines

Im curious to know the duration and lift of the stock fto cams as well

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:47 am

well apparently this stage 2 profile is also used in the 4g92 mivec engines and they go pretty hard apparently in those!!!
the non mivec cams are much more aggresive...
turns out its good in the end!
RPW are contacting their grinder and finding out what the stock fto cams are...

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:11 pm

okay ladies and gents the cams have arrived in hobart! according to the tnt tracking site...
willl be going down this arvo to check it out...
BUT THEY ARE FINALLY HERE!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Im so excited! now i have to go sit a economics exam which im going to fail but meh straight after going to my mechanics to see if they have been delivered..
Will be going in next week as long as my Cusco Pillowball Mounts get here in time from japan but they should do...
Bought all 4 cusco pillowball mounts for $368 delivered

score...

but boy am i excited!!!

The beast can finally begin muahahahaha

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:16 pm

before it goes in can anyone else recommend anything else i should get done to it?
NOS will be a possibility down the track...

Eltnot · Post by **Eltnot** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:56 pm

Good to see it finally about to get underway.

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:18 pm

ok set dates are in!

Car goes in next friday to have a before dyno run...
Then i get it back for the weekend.
August 10th - Work Begins on Car

should take 4 days to do all the work to it.

im so excited!
ill post up progression pics and videos if i can and illl pput up the dyno sheets and everything so u guys all know!

pretty sure this is a first with the NA cams in a fto?
will this most likely be the most powerful NA FTO without NOS?

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:01 pm

Valandis91 wrote:August 10th - Work Begins on Car
should take 4 days to do all the work to it.

BAHAHAHA.

Sorry, reading something like that always makes me laugh.

Good luck with the project, can't wait to see how it turns out!

Post by **vipfto** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:21 pm

GL time frame is more than enough seeing as just replacing stock parts with go fast bits its no real major problem (like piping for turbo etc) just needs to be stripped apart and bolted together with new bits and tuned nothing is actually changing as the fundamental mechanics are still the same

and i will be guessing that yes it will be most likely be quickest na fto on the drag strip anyway

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:43 pm

vipfto wrote:GL time frame is more than enough seeing as just replacing stock parts with go fast bits its no real major problem (like piping for turbo etc) just needs to be stripped apart and bolted together with new bits and tuned nothing is actually changing as the fundamental mechanics are still the same

and i will be guessing that yes it will be most likely be quickest na fto on the drag strip anyway

yeah exactly.. Suspension is one full days work as well. The tuning part is going to be tricky since we were only given to put these cams at stock spec and advance/retard them from tthere so its going to be a tricky tune!

why do u say on the drag strip?

Post by **vipfto** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:33 am

cant remember what your doing to handling upgrades thats all

Valandis91 · Post by **Valandis91** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:35 am

oh its on the first page...
spent big $$$ on handling as well