walk away

[Tony Hoffman]

Sure will.

First, before doing a cam swap, do a good free flowing exhaust. If not,
period tests (VW & Porsche) show a slight loss of torque with no gain in HP.
Those were with the 272 cam, though.

I have a 2.25" exhaust in mine. The cam swap doesn't seem to have negatively
affected milage. In fact, I have seen a slight increase, probably 1mpg
across the board. This is my DD, and I just put over 2500 road trip miles in
it, so I check milage often. I don't know that there is a rev point that the
difference is noticed, rather it's just more powerful ar higher RPM's. I am
also working on a stock 84, and comparing the two, mine is slightly stronger
from 3000 up. However, the 84 has better base settings, so the off idle is
better. Mine is identical to when the stock cam was in it.

The swap is straight forward. I just took the old one out, put the new one
it. I needed to remove the old one anyhow to clean the lifters. And, I had
the MC1 cam laying around. I would suggest replacing the WP/TB/idler/cam and
crank seals when you do this as well. And, replace your VC gasket with the
rubber one.

I don't have specs for any of the cams, however. But, I've been told that
the MC1 is slightly more aggressive, then the MC2 and NG/NF cams (which are
the same) are even more aggressive. then, the 272 cams.

HTH,
Tony


On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM, L DC <ldc007usa at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Tony,
>
> Could you please elaborate on the "more lift" due to that MC1 cam swap you
> did on the JT-Engine?
>
> At what REV do you start to see the difference?
> How's your gas mileage after the swap?
> Was the swap straight forward?
> Any other parts needed swap...e.i. Bolts, Nuts, Bearings?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Louis
>
>
>