In the new apartments they just built off Centerville?
Interesting your dealings with DTP...a lot of people that have had their cars dyno'd there have very high numbers...I will leave it at that...I am not doubting his tuning abilities just the readout of the dyno.
Are you interested in cam installs on the side or possibly helping people out as far as assistance? I am interested in doing it learning and I know of one other guy who is local and will be back from England in April and he want to do a set.
What made you decide on those cams and did you consider the Ford or BBR cams? I am an automatic with bolt ons and 410 gears so I am trying to decide what cams would work the best for my car...esp since it is a DD and the traffic going into and out of the base sucks.
I am interested in side jobs. BUT I am backed up at the moment and pretty much done until after March 17th. My wife is leaving for a 8 month deployment that day and I am focusing my extra time on her and our daughter. After she leaves I will jump back into the side jobs again. NSR cams are honestly very easy and I may make an exception. If you are interested we can take this to PM or meet up sometime and chit chat in the future.
Why did I go with these NSR cams? There are a few reasons. Cost played a big role. If I did springs, retainers and limiters it would be easily over a grand for parts. I only have a 2 valve spring compressor so I would have to buy the 3 valve spring compressor as well. Another 300 bux or so.
I would have liked to go bigger and better but I just felt the extra work and money involved for VSR's and SPR's aren't worth it to
ME. So out of my research of NSR cam's I narrowed it down to BBR stage 1's and Comp NSR stage 2's. Hot rods and thumpers are to much sound and not enough performance for my likings. I wanted good driveablilty and power. Sound being a by product. Which in my case it all turned out nicely. I feel I got the best of both worlds.
I was skeptical on BBR's lift.
IMO it is to high for the stock springs. I think that the valves will eventually start floating after a while (prematurely wear out). Other wise Comp would not recommend valve springs with there VSR's which happen to have nearly the same lift as BBR's. I could not get BBR to back up there reasoning as to why they feel there stage 1's are safe with the stock springs. I was told coil bind did not occur until .512 lift on stock springs. But that wasn't even my main concern. I am more concerned with the spring rate of the stock springs to be able to keep the valves fully closed at high RPM.
The comp NSR's, thumpr line and even hot rods do not require springs and have lift of no more than .450". While BBR Stage 1's on the other hand are at .480". Get what I am saying? I REALLY am not trying to put down the BBR cams. These are simply my opnions on what I wanted. They may work fine for some folks, I don't know. I just know I rev the crap out of my car and didn't wan't valve floating to occur.
The Comp NSR's have been proven over and over again to provide gains.
I guess overall, I felt that it wasn't worth the extra work and money to go with bigger cams for only a few more ponies. I also would like to have cams that work well with a twin screw which the comp NSR's tend to do. Also with the money I saved I was able to gears as well. NSR Cams/gears > bigger cams/no gears. The gears where partially paid for by a freind for christmas but I bought the supporting components.
Wow I typed a lot. Hope I answered you questions.
