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01-22-2016, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
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Lippy,
Good luck and take lots of pics to share with everyone here on the whole process. You could even start a new thread called "Lippy's Cam Swap". I am sure there are plenty of inquiring minds that would like to watch it all go down...what worked and what didn't. 
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01-22-2016, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Bay Area (Peninsula),
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 427, 427/487 side-oiler
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Originally Posted by Bernica
Lippy,
Good luck and take lots of pics to share with everyone here on the whole process. You could even start a new thread called "Lippy's Cam Swap". I am sure there are plenty of inquiring minds that would like to watch it all go down...what worked and what didn't. |
Yeah, I hope there is no "what didn't" |
01-22-2016, 01:49 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Originally Posted by lippy
Yeah, I hope there is no "what didn't"
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I think you're doing the right thing. For a predominantly driven street car, easing your cam back will really add to the pleasure quotient. |
01-22-2016, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt
I think you're doing the right thing. For a predominantly driven street car, easing your cam back will really add to the pleasure quotient.
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Yup. Bucking and snorting around town until you get over 5k rpm is fun, but...
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01-22-2016, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Bernica
Yup. Bucking and snorting around town until you get over 5k rpm is fun, but...
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It's not that bad. Actually it's pretty decent. But living in fairly congested NorCal, you *cannot* speed much. And if I get on the car, I'm going 90 MPH in a few seconds. The reality is that I spend most of my time at 2500 RPM, and occasionally get it in the higher RPM range, briefly. The more I think about it, peak of 5800 RPM and redline of 6300 would be perfect. |
01-22-2016, 02:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lippy
It's not that bad. Actually it's pretty decent. But living in fairly congested NorCal, you *cannot* speed much. And if I get on the car, I'm going 90 MPH in a few seconds. The reality is that I spend most of my time at 2500 RPM, and occasionally get it in the higher RPM range, briefly. The more I think about it, peak of 5800 RPM and redline of 6300 would be perfect.
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I agree with all above. While it is fun nailing 6,000+, where I live in SoCal that is rarely possible (well, yes of course I have done it!  and there isn't enough road to do it in 4th gear unless I'm on the freeway at around 4am (and I would never do that! .
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01-22-2016, 02:21 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: I'm Cobra-less!
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According to Jeff, it doesn't buck and snort much at all. However, where he lives, he spends all his time at 2000-2500 and doesn't have much room to really stretch it out. This engine doesn't want to start going hard until 5000-6000 rpm and it's just not prudent to keep it there all the time.
He's got some $$$$ Isky bushed solid roller lifters and some titanium retainers, so if he's up for the cam swap, I'm going to try to make it so that we just need to switch one or two things...
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