Benefits of Camming a Mach 1?
12-22-2009, 03:59 PM
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Benefits of Camming a Mach 1?
Well, about a year and a half ago I put BBK long tube on my mach 1, and just recently put a JLT cold air intake on and of course I have the SCT programmer, but recently i've wanted to look into putting a set of cams in my mach 1. Now granted parts will be the most expensive part of this project, i'm looking to install them myself, but i'm scared...very scared. First: Will the benefits of a cam be worth the trouble and the money, and second: How hard would this be to do myself? I'm not an idiot, I did my long tubes by myself instead of paying $800 for a shop to do them, and i'm pretty sure I could do these cams if anyone had a good how-to post. Let me know what you guys think.
12-22-2009, 08:31 PM
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Ha, I paid $619 to have longtubes installed after a quoted $450 and the shop said it was the first and last mustang they would ever do lol! Cant wait to see whats involved in cams... I was wondering myself.
12-23-2009, 01:40 AM
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Well I'm lucky enough to have access to a garage with a lift and any tool I need. Another benefit of being in the military. It took 8 hours of my Saturday, and about 25 bucks to rent the lift. Did it all myself but I didn't have time to put the midpipe In before they closed. Still not bad for having to drop the motor out. Funny...I can take the motor out of an F-22 stealth fighter faster than I can a mustang haha.
12-23-2009, 07:47 AM
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awesome...yeah i don't have a guide on how install these cams, but it's hard to see a ton of gain without a decent intake to match the cams, the best bang for buck cams are the 96-98 cobra intake cams. but if your spending money the cams from the ford GT will do nicely as well.
12-23-2009, 09:03 PM
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Ford GT cams... sounds awesome. That will work? lol. postmastrr - I too have access to a lift, my uncle has one at his house, but just didnt want to go through the hassel. It took them 2 full days to do it lol!
12-24-2009, 11:16 AM
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Camming a 4V motor is an awful lot of expense and work for very minimal gain, IMHO. I can think of many other things that are less expensive and labor intensive that will provide much return on investment in terms of power gains.
12-24-2009, 06:34 PM
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12-25-2009, 12:24 AM
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12-25-2009, 12:35 AM
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Well I'm lucky enough to have access to a garage with a lift and any tool I need. Another benefit of being in the military. It took 8 hours of my Saturday, and about 25 bucks to rent the lift. Did it all myself but I didn't have time to put the midpipe In before they closed. Still not bad for having to drop the motor out. Funny...I can take the motor out of an F-22 stealth fighter faster than I can a mustang haha.