Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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Re: Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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saxophonias wrote:Nice! Joris has said that with stock cam you can play with the cam timing (having an aftermarket cam gear) and get some extra power. Is this true?
A friend of mine did this on his stock ej9 with some bolt ons ,and he did got like 5bhp more with the cam gear.
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Re: Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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anything more specific regarding values?

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very interested on this values, i did my mini me and got a aem cam gear. I do feel thet with the current setup i have NO low and mid power at all, would like to have some gaines over there, hope that changing the timing would give me better results, any ideas?

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Maybe you could advance your timing like the article says but be carefull you dont want to cause detonation!
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Re: Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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In my experience, it is more complicated.

Usually I end up retarding the cam timing from stock (keeping ignition effectively the same), giving more power over the entire range of rpms, about 3k to 7k. Once I retard too far only above 7k I gain a a few hp, at a loss of many hps over the entire 3k-7k range all of a sudden. And this is less compromising as stated before, it really is a hard drop over the entire range giving effectively only one optimum and no real compromise between mid torque and high-end power. That is just my D-series experience with both non-VTEC and VTEC cams.

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Very usefull, maybe now i can set the timing right. Thnx Nick! 8-)
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Re: Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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Dodo Bizar wrote:Once I retard too far
Please explain what does it mean 'too far' ?

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I started retarding the cam bit by bit on a dyno. After passing the 'Goldy Locks zone' all of a sudden power started dropping everywhere. This I call 'too far' since I only loose power after that point and will definitively loose fuel economy even harder. I did not mean I got any damage or so.

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Dodo Bizar wrote:...after passing the 'Goldy Locks zone'
how many degrees on the cam gear was it for example ?

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Re: Setting cam gear and ignition timing

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On the cam gear I like to work with steps of 2 deg, which is 4 on the crank! So from my ideal setting I just retarded something like that more, maybe 3 deg and power was fading already.

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