I bought some #10 cams and some AEM cam gears, and while I am anxiously waiting for them in the mail I was wondering:

Does the 420a respond to cams and gears well?
Is installation a bitch?
and a guy I work with told me something about needing shims??? whatever that is, anyone know wtf he is talking about

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what company makes the cams you bought? I heard that #16 was the one to go with but i have no personal experience. There was a recient post about cam shafts. Also you will need to go to a dyno to get the most out of your cam gears.

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u might see 20hp from crane 10's they are the most mild cams jsut barely a step above the stock cams...

our cars really like the bigger cams like 16's and some tuning on the dyno with cam gears and you should be able to pickup a couple more ponies...

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#10's maybe the mildest billet cams made for our cars but they are much better than stock cams and quite a bit up from the stock specs ... take a look at the sticky post about cams in the Advanced Tuning section. Todd runs the #10 cranes. He makes 135 wHP and runs 15.3s.

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I think 16 is too much for our cars if you stay NA, unless you have some good electronic setup to help the idle. I would say go up to 14 cams, 10 might be a little too mild for all that work.

actually the 12, and 14's are made for turbo cars and the 16's are for NA. If you got with something lower u will need cam gears to set the overlap just right. They explain it well in teh cams thread in advanced tuning. i don't the the #'s actually correspond to increasing duration and lift of the cams.


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what about if you are running nitous? could you still run a 16 or would be be better to run a 14 or whatever.

I have crane 16s, car idles fine, drives fine, and runs fine. There is just this loud engine growl around 4-6k rpm then a real loud one around 6-7.2k.

and MAKE SURE that you remark the lines on the AEM gears or you'll go thru all the BS I just did. Do a search and you'll see my post and a picture that was posted of how the gears should actually look

Ohh...yeah...the picture was posted by "thedawg"...just to give due credit (thanx...that helped QUITE a bit)

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