Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
05-22-2007, 03:51 PM
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RE: Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
Torque is the name of the game. As someone mentioned though,your car has to be able to hook up so it's not wasted power. I prefer out of the hole perfomance. If you are building a road racer than I could see where you would want top end power. You have to figure out what you wnat.
As for the loppy cam, everyone likes the sound of a loppy cam. But it doesn't always mean the car is fast.
You may also want to get another engine builders input and the best thing is word of mouth. Talk to other local car guys and ask questions.
As for the loppy cam, everyone likes the sound of a loppy cam. But it doesn't always mean the car is fast.
You may also want to get another engine builders input and the best thing is word of mouth. Talk to other local car guys and ask questions.
05-22-2007, 04:26 PM
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RE: Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
Listen to what everyone here says, it's all good advice. Build an engine to operate in the rom range you NEED it to, and whatever the power is, is whatever the power is. It WILL run well, may lope, may not, might scream up top, might not. You need to determine how important sound is vis-a-vis performance. Me? I prefer the performance, and hope for the sound, if not oh well, but again, that's me. So the question is what is it you want in terms of performance/sound/sacrafice and go from there
05-22-2007, 05:05 PM
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RE: Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
Engine guy proposed a cam switch to a Crower 284HDP CRO-16242. He says this will provide better torque etc, anyone have any experience with this cam? how will it sound? anyone have any specs?
05-22-2007, 06:07 PM
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RE: Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
http://www.crower.com/
You have to go through the online master catalog (pdf)
284°/290° advt
228°/230° @ 0.050"
0.566"/0.587" gross lift with 1.76 rockers
It's actually listed by Crower as a level 4 cam for 332/352 engines, but spec-wise falls about midway between levels 3 and 4 for the 390/428 size engines. Looks like a reasonable compromise (don't let the term 'compromise' scare you off - proper cam selection is almost always a compromise).
On edit, Crower lists a level 3 as being for moderately modified engines and will have a moderate lope and an extended rpm range. Level 4 is for more heavily modified engines (and are skewed a bit more toward strip use than street driving). About 8 - 10 pages into the catalog has this and more information.
Norm
You have to go through the online master catalog (pdf)
284°/290° advt
228°/230° @ 0.050"
0.566"/0.587" gross lift with 1.76 rockers
It's actually listed by Crower as a level 4 cam for 332/352 engines, but spec-wise falls about midway between levels 3 and 4 for the 390/428 size engines. Looks like a reasonable compromise (don't let the term 'compromise' scare you off - proper cam selection is almost always a compromise).
On edit, Crower lists a level 3 as being for moderately modified engines and will have a moderate lope and an extended rpm range. Level 4 is for more heavily modified engines (and are skewed a bit more toward strip use than street driving). About 8 - 10 pages into the catalog has this and more information.
Norm
05-25-2007, 05:04 AM
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RE: Torque Vs Horsepower Stock sound Vs Mean Loppy Sound??
I agree w/ 67mustang302 no matter what you do your still going to smoke every BMW and rice rocket out there I know I am w/ 289 power. Don't worry aboutthe sound of the cam if its built right your in good shape. GOOD LUCK
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