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Barksavon - 23/11/10 at 09:19 PM

Can anyone recommend which route to take....ive a 2.0l Pinto in a Tiger Avon. Its 0.5mm o/size on the bores and fitted with bike carbs. My winter plans are to fit megajolt ignition, a vernier pulley and a camshaft...but which one to choose. Ive looked at Kent cams and i'm down to 3, the high torque, the mild road or the fast road. Its a road car which may get the odd track day, i think i'll be looking at acceleration improvements right through the gears and good driveability, i dont want something that comes on at 4000rpm, probably more like 2000. Any constructive comments welcome also any other cam recommendations other than Kent..
Thanks


austin man - 23/11/10 at 09:41 PM

http://www.kentcams.com/


mookaloid - 23/11/10 at 09:48 PM

I'd go for the FR32 for that spec of engine


marcjagman - 23/11/10 at 09:48 PM

In a car as light as these are you don't really need a lot of torque, personally I would think a fast road cam would be best.


mcerd1 - 23/11/10 at 10:15 PM

Kent FR32, Piper 285 or one of the Newmans ones

Piper cams linky

newmans cams linky


Barksavon - 23/11/10 at 10:15 PM

looks like being the FR32 fast road cam then....thanks


Barksavon - 23/11/10 at 10:26 PM

......or the piper, or the newman...


DRC INDY 7 - 23/11/10 at 10:27 PM

I had a fr32 cam kit in mine it went very well


FFTS - 23/11/10 at 10:38 PM

Another +1 for Newman cams. Just fitted a pair of fast road into my 1.8 K series and they came in about £80 less than piper etc. I also did a lot of reading up on forums and got a lot of very good feedback. I can tell the difference but really need to get it on a RR and have it remapped to get the best out of them.


mcerd1 - 23/11/10 at 10:46 PM

all 3 makes are very popular

I went for the piper 285 in mine - slightly higher lift and slightly shorter duration than the kent / newmans ones (not got it running yet though...)

the engine builder I use likes newmans race ones (he builds stock car engines for a living)




[Edited on 23/11/2010 by mcerd1]


flak monkey - 24/11/10 at 07:58 AM

Just go for the FR33, fast road. The loss of low down drievability is virtually unnoticable in a locost.

I had one fitted to mine and it would still quite happily pull from 30mph in 5th if you were in town or traffic.