96capricemgr

It is not a wild cam, it will hot idle at 800rpms sounding no worse than a HOT cam once tuned right. Funny thing though is i WORKS without breaking the valvetrain.

SS MPSTR

Imagine that...what a concept.

Once dialed in, it will run like a striped-*** ape. You'll find that you don't have to sound like a funny car to actually be quick.

bombebomb

+1 for this alot of folks are slightly confused.

526 SS 96

JoeliusZ28: The car sounds good. It should be a great street car. I am sure it will sound very cool pulling through some of the gears. I am going to the Woodward Ave. Dream cruse in a couple of weeks. If you need some help with your EFI tune, I would be glad to take a look at it.

JoeliusZ28

they give you most of the specs on their website. It is definitely a well researched peice. The rest they want you to keep confidential. I will say that installing this one dot-to-dot doesnt necessarily mean it isnt advanced either

So far it seems to be surprisingly happy even on the stock tune. sounds stock at 2k RPM and even at that low of an RPM i can just tell there is a lot more air moving through the engine when i put my foot down. When the engine comes back down to idle is the only problem im having - but my spark timing and fuel mapping are way off.

thanks man ill shoot you a PM if i have any problems. Ive got a friend who is pretty good at tuning so i think I should be OK. finding someone at the woodward dream cruise is no easy task though!

97SS0594

very nice bud!! and i owe ya a slurpee we had to pull the other head off and am awaiting the machine shop but... i did drive it .6 miles are you sitting by brian at the dream cruise? if so ill bring you your slurpee there

JoeliusZ28

dont worry about the slurpee i wouldnt want you to spill it in your interior. yea thats probably where I will be parked... wherever that is. (19 mile i think?)
what happened to the other head?

silver97Z

Any reason why you went with the 226/234 instead of the 230/238? Only reason I ask is 'cause AI's website says the 226/234 is their largest offering for A4 cars and 230/238 is the largest for M6 cars. (stock longblock)

JoeliusZ28

I had decided on the 230/238 originally but I talked to Ron on the phone for probably an hour or so and he convinced me to go with the smaller one. He said he typically only recommended the 230/238 for strokers, and even my cam would work on a stroker. I hope i dont regret it, because i could easily deal with more cam than this. I have yet to see what it can do though

to be more specific, i said i wanted as much overall power as possible (low-end included) and the top end gains wouldve been less than the low end loss [difference].

97SS0594

we never pulled it and i stuck a straight edge over the valves and they where even. but when we fired it up i didnt have one cylinder so we pulled it and found both #8 valves where ever so slightly bent out of the seat. my dad and i pulled it and had the motor stripped right down again in under 2 hours! id bet my dad and i could do a heads/cam swap in 3 hours!

JoeliusZ28

haha nice. I definitely could do mine a heck of a lot faster the second time around now that i am familiar with it.

for what its worth i needed half of a valve job on mine too. My intake guides were pretty worn, def had some slop. Exhaust was fine though so i left them alone.

'94 Bad A Z28

You graduated in '04 and 4 years later still have your graduation tassel thing hanging from your rear view mirror?

'94 Bad A Z28

Sounds good, and you have a big *** garage man, lol.

JoeliusZ28

f yea! the only reason i even put in there is cause i like watching it launch back on the shifts

and thanks, its my dads pole barn. Got a cat5 internet feed out there and everything made life a little easier!

Mtxz453

sounds great man.. i've been real busy with work and am finally just finishing the valvetrain now. Waiting on the intake from AI and then it will be all together. Cam sounds great can't wait until mine is finished. Then we can compare.