Hmm, too much cam?

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...QrdZ1I'm VERY tempted to buy these. w/o only 8.8mm lift, I could still run the stock springs and I don't think I'd have to mill the head either.

That's still some helatious cam. They'd prob suck for anything but drag racing...


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i would buy them without thinking.. (but price and i already got tomei's)

adjustable cam gears, you'll get back a little low end, but imagine from 6-8500rpm... man..

the right small frame turbo, and intake manifold, you would have a screamer

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if I was going to replace my bottom end to handle higher rpm's I'd definetly pick those up, with my big turbo those would be fast as hell (in a straight line anyway)

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Damn Ryan, I think those would really kill your AutoX beast you have. Great for big track, and like CA19 said, right small frame Garrett GT (Possibly the 2541 .76 HKS offering I want so bad) and that would be killer. But really, how much do you expect sprockets to dail those back? Kind of a waste IMHO. Just wait for some 264s man.

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The 2 600bhp CA's I know of both run HKS 264s

400 has been ran on std cams.

unless you have an enormous turbo, want to rev to 9k+ and want ****e drivabilty I'm not sure I see the point in 272s.

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Ok, you talked me out of it. I've got a spare set of cams I just need to send off to be re-ground anyway. I was going to set them up for the 264 specs.

Regardless, I just bought a CA18DET rear end off of ebay so I just got the correct gearing I was after, which is more important to me right now than the cams.

Now for an HLSD and some of those bolts that Bio found...


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