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idle???
Posted: February 2nd, 2003, 4:21 am
by mx34u2nve
What do people mean when they talk about how they sacrifice idle for hp??? what is sacrificing idle?
Re: idle???
Posted: February 2nd, 2003, 5:37 am
by pelado
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mx34u2nve:
What do people mean when they talk about how they sacrifice idle for hp??? what is sacrificing idle?<hr></blockquote><p>That's when you replace the cams with ones that have higher duration. The idle quality gets worse but the HP gets better.
Re: idle???
Posted: February 13th, 2003, 8:10 am
by Cacho
How worse is worse? I was planning on doing a cam job on someones car I dont want to have to think ive done something wrong.
Re: idle???
Posted: February 13th, 2003, 10:30 pm
by pelado
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Cacho:
How worse is worse? I was planning on doing a cam job on someones car I dont want to have to think ive done something wrong.<hr></blockquote><p>It obviously depends on how radical the cam is. If you don't realize this, then you shouldn't be "doing a cam job" on anyone's car.
Re: idle???
Posted: February 14th, 2003, 6:31 am
by Cacho
Well actually I just finished the job. All I did was swap the cams he bought and thats not so bad. Idle is still reasonable and not as worse as I read it would be.