Anyone using HKS v-cam

[neilo]

How do you find the system? worth the money?

Cheers
Neil

[MacGTR]

Here is a good comparison with and without V-Cam, All in all I think it is worth it if you can afford it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRR_a...eature=related

[neilo]

Interesting

[Snowfiend]

LOL....like you need it ! That car's enough of an animal

[neilo]

I thought it was a bit slow coming out of corners. lol

[Snowfiend]

I didnt !!!!!!!!!

[Sub Boy]

It's the 9000NZD (approx 4500euro) that scares me!

[neilo]

Must have been just me then. lol

[neilo]

Deffinitly not cheep! that scares me to.

[moleman]

Neil, Jae has Vcam. Do a search on his posts. It's pretty impressive when set up and he only has it on a 2.6.

[neilo]

Had a look Ian, looks very good if it did the same to my setup it would be worth every penny.

I can only dream of 800hp and 800lbft torque with full boost at 3500rpm

Need more reserch! lol

[moleman]

I considered it when I rebuilt my engine, but a couple of things put me off. 1 was £££s, lol, 2 was that I believe you sacrifice a fair bit of top end RPM. As my car is primarily track and nor road, that didn't make much sense. I like revs.

[neilo]

If thats the case mate not so good for a track car.

[Abbey M/S]

2 was that I believe you sacrifice a fair bit of top end RPM

moley , the V-CAM kit should give you the best of both worlds lots of low end torque and a rev monter motor all rolled into 1.

I think we when spoke about the kit the only kit available was the Step1 kits , you can still special order the Step 2 kit comes with a 260deg 10.2 cam. not a bad spec but you need to run Step2 HKS valve springs and modify the head to run the extra lift ( HKS use STD size base cam circle) so you need to remove material from the head to allow the cam to spin. Dont think your head has this done to it as you was running tomei Step 2 cams before, so the head ould have to come off I am afraid.


Neil it would help ,but I am sure a little work on the cam timing/mapping on the dyno will help you out , what rpm does your car pull good boost from (say 1bar)?

[cokey]

It sounds expensive ! especially when you got it free on wikipeado 33 engines. ?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cris
So what you're saying is that the R32 was winning races when it was stock weight but once it had extra weight added it suddenly stopped winning races and was thus inferior.

How much does your R33 weigh again?


In general 32's are supposed to be 40kg lighter, and 50kg lighter than the Vspecs.

Its all here in wikipedia so why are you asking me.

Nissan Skyline GT-R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote:
The engine corrected the R32's weak oil pump drive collar, which tended to fail in higher power applications, with a wider collar. The R33 engine also introduced a mechanical advance on the intake camshaft improving torque slightly. The base model R33 GT-R weighs 1540 kg.[1]
Seems it needed that extra weight for more reliable parts.
Last edited by chrisbeau; 24th September 2008 at 05:25 PM.