Cams ordered

[Mike93SVT]

Finally pulled the trigger and ordered cams from BPS. It will be interesting to see the results since the car still has an eaton. I'll post up once they're installed and hit the rollers.

I also just installed these in a buddy's 11' that has a 3.4 whipple, headers and supporting mods. Will post his results soon as well.

Engine mods list:

BPS cams
2.5 pulley
Ford Racing 65mm TB
JLT CAI
Off road H pipe
AFCO HE

 

[einehund]

Oh man! Looking forward to the results!!

 

[Phantomhalo]

^+1 Keep us posted!!

 

[C.Stanley]

Defiantly in for results and sound. After e85 cams will be my winter project.

 

[jazz]

Nice. I've thinking about getting those too

 

[- Aj -]

+1 looking forward to your results


Sent from my superfast Shelby GT500

 

[2011 gtcs]

The car should definitely pick up some decent power.

 

[kawibrian]

How's the install on these, I've been eyeballing them for a while now along with the L&Ms

 

[Mike93SVT]

I don't think they'll make the typical 50/50 gain since I have the Eaton and stock manifolds. Mainly doing it because the valve covers will be off for paint and sound. TVS and headers are next year.

Install was real straight forward, no issues. L&M require a low vacuum bypass because the cams don't make enough vacuum at idle. Also when I talked to VMP, they weren't a fan of them. They will be tuning so I listened.

My buddy's car drives great as well. No slow speed issues and sounds nasty

Mike

 

[Phantomhalo]

I don't think they'll make the typical 50/50 gain since I have the Eaton and stock manifolds. Mainly doing it because the valve covers will be off for paint and sound. TVS and headers are next year.

Install was real straight forward, no issues. L&M require a low vacuum bypass because the cams don't make enough vacuum at idle. Also when I talked to VMP, they weren't a fan of them. They will be tuning so I listened.

My buddy's car drives great as well. No slow speed issues and sounds nasty

Mike

This is probably a dumb question but did they come with directions or were there some somewhere else you followed to ensure everything was dialed in correctly? Not saying you did anything wrong. I just want to look them over to see if my mechanical abilities/tools are up for the job.

 

[Mike93SVT]

This is probably a dumb question but did they come with directions or were there some somewhere else you followed to ensure everything was dialed in correctly? Not saying you did anything wrong. I just want to look them over to see if my mechanical abilities/tools are up for the job.

Not dumb. No directions included. I searched and read a few threads about 4v cam installs. There's a couple write ups about terminator installs. Same setup. We installed them straight up.

We simply pulled the valve covers. Rotated the motor until all the lobes were off their ramps near the base circle for both cams (one side at a time), inserted the timing chain wedge tool, took off the main timing chain bolt maintaining the gear in the chain with constant tension. Then another set of hands pulled both cams out with the secondary chain attached to them. Slid one cam out at a time and reinstalled new cam. There's a key way so they only fit one way. Then set them back in place, torque down and attach the primary chain with a new ARP bolt

Is that the ford tech way to do it? No. Is it the best way? No. We took the risk and were very cautious with the whole process

Mike

 

[Catmonkey]

So you didn't remove the cam followers to remove and install the camshafts? Sounds like a good way to make very expensive heads into large paper weights.

 

[Mike93SVT]

No, there was no need to. Just walk all the caps down slowly and equally.

Mike

 

[tvspower]

Enjoy Bps cams.. Sounds great on my 08 and runs great, Don't know why I cannot load the video... Worked before. Ahhhhh

 

[Mike93SVT]

Thanks. Copy and post the YouTube link/url and I'll embed it

Mike

 

[Zemedici]

we just put some custom grinds in a trinity car. Lemme load up the video, one second.

 

[Zemedici]

video!

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Picked up 60whp and 20ftlbs

 

[Mike93SVT]

Sounds great!

 

[CuZzO99L]

Interested in where it makes the power after the cam install as well as driveabilty changes. Ive been reluctant to do cams for the fear of moving the curve to far up the rpm range. I like all the powers down low for street hooning purposes... Keep us posted!!