Ricardo

Just like the title says.

Loaded the tune and installed the cams and couldn't be happier. Ran a corrected time of 13.2@104mph, with a dismal 60' of 2.286 on street tires (D/A was 7119ft here in Utah at the time!). My car is now almost a full second ahead of near stock 3V cars. It pulls harder now in the upper RPMs instead of falling flat on it's face as before the cams. No noticeable loss of tq in the lower RPMs with 4.10 gears.

Install was super easy and took 4 hrs total taking my time, I only used the chain wedge. Yes a lot of people will frown on not removing the followers but I did not and simply slowly loosened and tightened the caps in order a little at a time with zero issues. The phaser/cam gear is keyed and the new cam just slides into place without having to turn the engine this way and that way. In a nutshell: just unbolt, slide out cam, slide in new cam, bolt it up.

TIP: while you're in there, get new VCT solenoids; even if your current ones are working fine. Ford recently put out a redesigned solenoid with a check valve to get rid of the VCT tick and my car stopped ticking. The new ones will look a little different so expect that.

drewsky

Nice to hear. I want to do this soon as well!

Scott2

Glad your cam install,went great!

How about some more information on the new VCT solenoids, do you have the part numbers?

2005Redfire6

You ran a 13.2 with the cams or before? Think it will run 12.2 now? I'd like to see that!


Regardless, congrats! Post up an idle video!

Ricardo

It was 13.2 corrected. Sorry about that! The real time was 14.4 but we were at 7119 ft D/A at race time.

I don't have the numbers because they're already installed but when you order them from the dealership, the new ones are all they give out now. They are $42 each but the dealership will try to sell them for around $65 each.