Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:37 pm
At this stage there is no way to garauntee any gains - simply because no one has done a naturally aspirated grind on the fto vehicles yet. WE have done lots of turbo and supercharger profiles which have turned out very popular and are providing exceeding good results. Mind you we are able to cheat there a little - we are using on the high rpm lobes a stock 6A13 DOHC Turbo cam profile which is perfect for the smaller 2.0 engine as its equivelent to being a large turbo profile.
I have manafactured the billets and have some recomended grinds we have used on a lot of other engines - but ultimatly, and I still say, the stock 2.0 FTO vehicles do not need a larger profile for the n/a vehicles unless they are virtually full race. Without increased compression, some major head work and manifold work - I honestly do not beleive cost V gain ratio that a set of improved high rpm camshafts would be of any great benefit as the secondary high rpm cam profile is already very large already.
main benefits I woudl forsee is to increase the low rpm profile by a smal factor say half a grind to smooth out the low to high rpm transition and give the car some more poke down low. But again - cost V gain benefit ratio - not there.
This is the main reason why I have not pushed any camshafts for the n/a FTO vehicles unless someone is going very very serious on the engine with much higher compression where you can go to a very large camshaft profile where you are planning on staying in the high rpm range all the time.
Thats my honest opinion - and as you can see I am not trying to sell a product to make money here - I have looked and seen enough , done enough research and that is what I firmly beleive.
So question is if you want a new set of camshafts, no problem, I have suggested profiles or if your engine builder has a preferred profile then tell us and we are happy to grind it to whatever profile you want which is really at this stage the best way to do it.
If after reading this you still want a set of cams, gears etc then contact me normal emails and we can go from there including pricing.
I have manafactured the billets and have some recomended grinds we have used on a lot of other engines - but ultimatly, and I still say, the stock 2.0 FTO vehicles do not need a larger profile for the n/a vehicles unless they are virtually full race. Without increased compression, some major head work and manifold work - I honestly do not beleive cost V gain ratio that a set of improved high rpm camshafts would be of any great benefit as the secondary high rpm cam profile is already very large already.
main benefits I woudl forsee is to increase the low rpm profile by a smal factor say half a grind to smooth out the low to high rpm transition and give the car some more poke down low. But again - cost V gain benefit ratio - not there.
This is the main reason why I have not pushed any camshafts for the n/a FTO vehicles unless someone is going very very serious on the engine with much higher compression where you can go to a very large camshaft profile where you are planning on staying in the high rpm range all the time.
Thats my honest opinion - and as you can see I am not trying to sell a product to make money here - I have looked and seen enough , done enough research and that is what I firmly beleive.
So question is if you want a new set of camshafts, no problem, I have suggested profiles or if your engine builder has a preferred profile then tell us and we are happy to grind it to whatever profile you want which is really at this stage the best way to do it.
If after reading this you still want a set of cams, gears etc then contact me normal emails and we can go from there including pricing.