is anybody running stage 2 cams on a stock bottom end? is it possible?
I'm looking at getting a set (and springs of course), but i dont want to find out the hard way that they wont work...and was wondering if anybody has done it and knows for sure.
There are a number of people on here with stage 2 cams. They will work with stock bottom end, they wont put you over the 2V's power limit. You can have full bolt ons and stage 2 cams and you will be fine, just have it tuned for the cams and for driveability.
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I am mostly worried about piston to valve clarance issues.
I have heard from a few people it will work and 1 that says it will not, so that has me nervous that i will eat a set of 600 dollar cams... or ruin my pistons and heads if i dont catch it on the install.
I was leaning towards the comp XE270AH. but if they dont work, no worries... i just want something that has a good rough idle, and a good 30hp gain or so.
270's are close, but if they are degreed in right, there won't be any PTV contact. I have seen PTV contact with them before, but that's because they weren't degreed in correctly, and one sprocket was off from the factory 7 degrees!!!!! So don't trust Ford's sprockets, you have to have them degreed.
The hitechs have shown as much or more gain than the 270's without as much lift, so don't let the specs fool you. Check out youtube, there's a few idle clips of the Hitech stage 2's on there, I think they sound pretty nice.
I'll definatly look into the Hitechs. I'd never heard of them before a few minutes ago, and have already read quite a few good things about them. No valve springs required i guess? that'll save a couple of hours right there!
oh and i wasnt planning on degreeing the cams. I dont have the wheel, and i have heard its an extra few hours to do it right... a guy at dynospeed in memphis said 5-8 hours and 600 bucks to do it. over 3 grand for the whole install.. no thanks. I 'll just look into a different cam. I'm way too poor for that
ok, so last question... Who sells these hitech cams other than Hitech... sounds like a dumb question, but usually you can get them 20 or 30 bucks cheaper from a vendor rather than the source.
no matter witch cams you get you still need to have them degreed in to get the full potential out of your purchase and also so you dont have any isuues but that being said i would go with the hitech stage 2 and you should go ahead and put a good set of valve springs in while you are at it unless you motor has less than 20'000 miles on it because it would suck to have a spring fail and blow it up
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yeah johnr2001 is he gona get sum of that spray as well lol you guys could go out and take on every1 as a father son team lmfao
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not to hijack the thread, but i thought that the hi-tech stage 2 cams wont work in a pi headswapped car ?
its not just Hitech ,any stage 2 cam in a pi swapped motor will have ptv issues if you dont machine the margin down on the intake valves or knotch the pistons or last option is to by aftermarket valves from manley. they are a lot thinner then the factory valves.
thats the only issue.
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