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Hey ppls.

Well, you probably all know about my loss of power after fitting the Tomei Poncams.

Well, here's a question.

My exhaust cam is set at 2 degrees retarded and the tune was done like this.

If I set my exhaust cam back to 0 and reset the base timing, will this make a massive difference to my tune, and will I need to get it back up on the dyno and adjust?

I wouldn't think that I would need to, as I figure the airflow has more to do with it than 2 degrees of cam timing, but I've been wrong before.

All help appreciated.

BASSS OUT

Hey ppls.

Well, you probably all know about my loss of power after fitting the Tomei Poncams.

Well, here's a question.

My exhaust cam is set at 2 degrees retarded and the tune was done like this.

If I set my exhaust cam back to 0 and reset the base timing, will this make a massive difference to my tune, and will I need to get it back up on the dyno and adjust?

I wouldn't think that I would need to, as I figure the airflow has more to do with it than 2 degrees of cam timing, but I've been wrong before.

All help appreciated.

BASSS OUT

Do you mean you've fitted tomei poncams? or cam gears? cos they are 2 different things! cam gears change the timing and the poncam cams are the actualy camshafts - I haven't heard many people losing power from fitting larger camshafts, but I have heard many people losing power on cam gears :(

I've fitted Tomei Poncams, and I also have an Adjustable HKS Exhaust Cam wheel.

We fiddled with the cam gear when tuning the cams, at 4 degreed retarded we made same power as 2 degrees retarded, and at 2 degrees advances we made 30rwkw less!

So we played around a bit, but ran out of time to set the exh cam gear to 0 degrees.

Hence, I would like to try this and see how we go, but I don't have a had controller or dyno at my disposaal.

BASS OUT

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