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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 10:36 AM
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Picking my car up tomorrow with my new headers and camshafts. Hopefully I see some more gains. Got a new radiator and fan as well since my last dyno but doubtful that it does anything to performance on the dyno.
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 10:40 AM
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What cams did you get?
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 10:44 AM
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What cams did you get?
Tomei 264/264 cams as well as their headers to replace my ichiba ones.
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 11:03 AM
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very nice.....I have been contemplating their headers. I just remembered our discusion on g35driver.
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 11:11 AM
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good numbers and on 91 crap gas
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 03threefiftyz
very nice.....I have been contemplating their headers. I just remembered our discusion on g35driver.
For a second there I thought you werea differe 03threefiftyz, since we almost had the same discussion on G35driver. Since that time I did get a re-tune because of some exhaust gasket problem, that's why you see that extra 7hp gain from my last dyno sheet.
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 07:51 AM
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Bump......we want results gabe
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 05:22 PM
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car was not done today, so the car shop said tomorrow night. To say the least, this was a very disappointing news. Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow though. I waited nearly 1 months for the items to come, another 2 weeks for a free slot to open for the install, what's another day.

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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 05:28 PM
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Who is doing the install?
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 05:29 PM
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www.zcarblog.com their blog site
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 05:31 PM
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If you wouldn't mind, can you pm what it cost for the cam install? Just for reference. Thanks.
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 05:54 PM
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I believe most shop go based on the stated work hours for the job in the service manual, which is 8 hours for cam install. Then from shop to shop the hourly rate is different. From my experience, prices vary from 75-120/hour.
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Yeah I realize how it works I was just curious as to how many hours it stated.
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It's not really worth per say, but since I'm going to either stroke/bore out my engine or/and supercharge my engine, I thought I might as well do it step by step and learn on the way.
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I think it will be worth it. Hopefully you pick up ~10-15whp throughout and the power holds till redline. That would be enough to sell me on the header and cams.
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I really doubt I'm going to be picking much from the headers since I already have equal length ones. However the dimensions on the tomei are quite different (length and diameter), who knows, I'm keeping my expectations neutral on the headers. I only got them to solve the rubbing with my old ones, so you might get dissapointed in the before and after header dyno results. I hope i don't lose power...that would suck major monkey *****.
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Originally Posted by gabe3d
I really doubt I'm going to be picking much from the headers since I already have equal length ones. However the dimensions on the tomei are quite different (length and diameter), who knows, I'm keeping my expectations neutral on the headers. I only got them to solve the rubbing with my old ones, so you might get dissapointed in the before and after header dyno results. I hope i don't lose power...that would suck major monkey *****.
I was referring to the combo of the 264's and the headers.

I think it will be worth it. Hopefully you pick up ~10-15whp throughout and the power holds till redline. That would be enough to sell me on the headers and cams.

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Yeah, I know. But the way my car is setup as of now if I do get 15hp, you won't be able to tell whether it's from the header or cam or both. For the price of both you can almost get a supercharger installed, but anyways it's your call to make.
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Originally Posted by gabe3d
Yeah, I know. But the way my car is setup as of now if I do get 15hp, you won't be able to tell whether it's from the header or cam or both. For the price of both you can almost get a supercharger installed, but anyways it's your call to make.
I have had big power turbo cars in the past and find making NA power more fun at this point in my life ( we will see how long that lasts ), but I wanna do a 11:5:1 3.8 stroker with 272's (possibly 280s') at some point, but I might just say screw and get a c6.........we'll see. I would imagine that the 264's should lend themselves pretty well to the stock short block.
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Originally Posted by gabe3d
I really doubt I'm going to be picking much from the headers since I already have equal length ones. However the dimensions on the tomei are quite different (length and diameter), who knows, I'm keeping my expectations neutral on the headers. I only got them to solve the rubbing with my old ones, so you might get dissapointed in the before and after header dyno results. I hope i don't lose power...that would suck major monkey *****.
The mere fact that they are currently equal length is essentially meaningless. It shifts the power band around a bit, but there are far more cricitcal aspects to a manifold than whether or not it's equal length or not
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