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Old 05-25-2004, 04:29 PM
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hey i just helped my friend installing some cams for his VR6. and i love the idle noise. but those add like 25hp.. the ones for the max are like 12 hp right??? i was just wonder when u guys installed this cam did the ilde change?? noise etc. power?

is JWT the only one that makes camshaft for the 4 gen max?????
what did u guys change??? chain, tensior, water pump etc. cause im looking into this.

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What were his cams designed for? What was the profile of the lobes? Our cams are made for mid-upper rpms, like the MEVI. His maybe are for low-mid rpms and are maybe more aggressive. The JWT ones are pretty mild from what I hear. The idle does change. There is a guy here that has them along with the cattman headers, MATT or something.
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Old 05-25-2004, 07:16 PM
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the cams sound mean where they are loping. With the maxima and jwt cams, you'll have to raise the idle to 900 rpm to get rid of that sound
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Old 05-25-2004, 10:27 PM
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Iron Lung down in AZ has cams and headers. There is some video with his car with crazy lope in the idle and no catback, sounding like a serious race car.
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Old 05-25-2004, 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by hakk97se
Iron Lung down in AZ has cams and headers. There is some video with his car with crazy lope in the idle and no catback, sounding like a serious race car.
He has the car tuned in now, it is purring like a kitten, and fast as h**l.
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Old 05-25-2004, 11:24 PM
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He has the car tuned in now, it is purring like a kitten, and fast as h**l.
how fast? if its fast enough that may be the route i may go
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Old 05-25-2004, 11:28 PM
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It'll restyle your hair in a matter of seconds...
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Old 05-26-2004, 04:07 AM
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PhxBlue: did you get those cams installed yet or what? BTW love your car.
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Old 05-26-2004, 05:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Big D
What were his cams designed for? What was the profile of the lobes? Our cams are made for mid-upper rpms, like the MEVI.
The factory cams in the 95-99 VQ have a shorter duration with advanced valve closure and a slight amount of overlap to help promote low-end power. They're not high-end cams at all. If that was the case they'd have a longer duration and a later intake valve closure angle than they do. For top-end, the extremely oversquare design of the engine (3.66in bore x 2.89in stroke) gives a lot of valve area to work with, and that's where the top-end comes from with the MEVI. Not the cams.
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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
The factory cams in the 95-99 VQ have a shorter duration with advanced valve closure and a slight amount of overlap to help promote low-end power. They're not high-end cams at all. If that was the case they'd have a longer duration and a later intake valve closure angle than they do. For top-end, the extremely oversquare design of the engine (3.66in bore x 2.89in stroke) gives a lot of valve area to work with, and that's where the top-end comes from with the MEVI. Not the cams.
Thanks for the accurate information, Stevtec.
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Old 05-26-2004, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Chinkzilla
PhxBlue: did you get those cams installed yet or what? BTW love your car.
I wish! I have been way too busy to have the time yet.
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Old 05-26-2004, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
For top-end, the extremely oversquare design of the engine (3.66in bore x 2.89in stroke)
Stop encouraging these people to use dinosour math.

It's 93mm bore x 73.3mm stroke)
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o man i wanna hear a video how it sounds!!!! so it does sound like it wants 2 stall??. plus im looking 2 do all motor. first then bosst
whats the power increase on these again???
where are these cams ? does JWT have a site
i know stillen has then.
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Old 05-26-2004, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by SR20DEN
Stop encouraging these people to use dinosour math.

It's 93mm bore x 73.3mm stroke)
Sorry, good ol boys like me have trouble thinking metric.

Cam duration @ 0.050" lift, lift in inches, boring 0.030" over, etc. Metric = no compute.

I'll try to get it right next time.
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Old 05-26-2004, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
The factory cams in the 95-99 VQ have a shorter duration with advanced valve closure and a slight amount of overlap to help promote low-end power. They're not high-end cams at all. If that was the case they'd have a longer duration and a later intake valve closure angle than they do. For top-end, the extremely oversquare design of the engine (3.66in bore x 2.89in stroke) gives a lot of valve area to work with, and that's where the top-end comes from with the MEVI. Not the cams.
I wasn't talking about the stock cams. I was talking about the JWT cams. From the dyno that was shown they didn't show any gains til after 4krpm with a bit of low end loss if I'm not mistaken.
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Yeah I wasn't sure, that's why I said factory cams.

I've heard that JWT video. Lots of nice idle lope. The LSA is probably a lot smaller (lots more overlap) than the factory setup for sure.
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Old 05-27-2004, 10:03 AM
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Sorry for the confusion. I still have the video and listen to it often. It sounds amazing.
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Old 05-27-2004, 04:04 PM
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send me the video!!!! pm me bro.. please
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Old 05-27-2004, 04:08 PM
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btw how many diff cams are thier for the 4 gen????????
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Old 05-27-2004, 06:38 PM
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There are only the JWT cams for now. You could of course go somewher to get some custom cams too. Just edit your post instead of posting them one after another within 5 minutes.
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Originally Posted by RI-Max
o man i wanna hear a video how it sounds!!!! so it does sound like it wants 2 stall??. plus im looking 2 do all motor. first then bosst
whats the power increase on these again???
where are these cams ? does JWT have a site
i know stillen has then.
here you go. Enjoy
http://team310.com/maxima/matt004.mpg
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Old 05-28-2004, 03:34 AM
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The VQ35 cams will also work if you get your cam gears machined to fit them.
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That sounded sick. Sounded like an old v8. Not for me. But hey whatever floats your boat i guess
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