Just fitted a newman cam/soid lifters but it doesn't come with any timing settings (or instructions of any sort to be honest), set it to the standard timing marks for now, but wondered what youg guys have found to be the optimium setting??? Doesn't really seem to be as good as i thought it'd be at the mo, hopin it will be better when timed up correctly!

 

I paid someone to do mine

 

the timing figures are on the website. 114 degrees at full lift no1 cylinder.

T28 RST
what urs sound like mate - tappety?

 

A wee bit but not that bad

 

mines is a wee bit tickety but when it starts to chap badly you just adjust them

 

Ive had mine adjusted once in the 3 years its been in the car

 

RICK: Cheers, i'll set it to that on the wkend then and see what it's like! Gonna let mine settle down for a couple of weeks then re-adjust them, shouldn't be too rattly i hope!
T28RST: what do u reckon to yours???? Only i got the impression it was almost a race cam i.e lairy, but to be honest it doesn't pull as strong at the top as i thought it would!

 

I had a Piper T2 before and the diffrence was unreal, i feel the cam comes in about 3500rpm which you can feel

 

like any modification done to change the characteristics of the engine needs set up afterwards,get it to a tuner to be proper set up and youll see the difference then,id get a vernier pulley if youve not already got one

 

JAMBO RST: yeah already got a vernier mate, like u say will be better once setup, my tuner will be settin it up soon, just first impressions like!

 

I was impressed with mine

 

cant make first impressions until its runnin to its potential,its gonna change how your car will run,pull and general driveability,if you had put a similar specced cam you had in it would be 90% set up,but you have completely changed whats goin on so its gonna be well off tune,so much that its gonna either feel shite and not what you expected or gonna pull like a train and youll have over expectations,i wouldn't even be raggin it to test how good it is till its proper set up,whens it goin to be set up,let us know how it goes

 

JAMBO RST: Yeah i know what you're sayin mate, had a kent cvh34 before so it's setup for that like, now i've driven it a bit (my tuner said i could drive it till he can set it up) and it's not as bad as i thought! Should be good when timed in properly, and runnin 20 p.s.i!