B234 camshaft specs

klr142 said:

Hey, don’t come in here with numbers! The Leif’s sheet isn’t showing up for me for whatever reason l, but I know what it says. It says more torque for the Leif below 3000rpm! At least with that camshaft. Now, I’m not so sure.

Still, it’s far from the low end torque you’d get out of a similar setup on an 8v(and conversely, it would fall off at high rpm where this doesn’t). I think I would like the powerband better with stock cams in a turbo 16V street car where the low end has more oomph and it still would have plenty of pull up top.

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Nobody does anything with a hot street engine below 3000 unless it's a diesel and it's geared to suit.

Also update your browsing and get in the habit of using SSL URLs when possible. It will show up then (https:// instead of http</2>://).

I don't see the leif dyno pic either.. I see the gutless 16v just fine, sorta like biden's votes..

Harlard said:

Nobody does anything with a hot street engine below 3000 unless it's a diesel and it's geared to suit.

Also update your browsing and get in the habit of using SSL URLs when possible. It will show up then (https:// instead of http</2>://).

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I turned the requirement on so everything is SSL now that can be. I have no idea how I got into a cycle of things not being secure but I went through a lot of recent threads and my thread of links to add the s!

In any case, it is very true your gearing has a lot to do with the way your car feels. I forgot about that point. It reminds me(slightly) of a non-turbo 850 5spd I test drove 15 years ago. The gearing was so tall it felt extremely gutless. If you get a 4.10 in there and with better boost control/tuning that it likely has now, I bet my feelings will be much different. Good point!

For fun, here are some dyno runs. Your low end is similar to Nathan's before he turned up the boost. You just need to turn the boost up more, it seems!

Wonder how much more the torque would have filled in if the boost controller had been active on that run. It wasn't seeing the full 11 psi of fury fairly late in the run lol

Yep, I wonder as well. Your turbo was coming in at the same time as Nathan’s, that’s why I have the low boost and high boost runs from the same day in there.