brett_

wots the best cam to use for my RS

milesy23rst

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Imo newmans cam are good as are piper but personally would stay away from the 285t2

Antti O

285t2 works pretty fine, but power band is too high in my opinion. Needs definetly programmable efi.

morph

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i have a t2 piper and mine is very good! i think i gained alot of torque in the high rpms as the car used to die at 5500rpm now it stays in until 6200rpm and falling slowly.
very good cam.

Patto

when i rebuilt my top end i asked this and the conclusion was that the standard cam is good for decent power so unless wanting to go BIG power stick with it, so i put a new ford one in, plus at the time there were a lot of issues with the kent cvh and th piper 285t

ste45

i had a piper 285 in myn .. just had it taken out and put standard 1 in and its drives sooo much better !

morph

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Is the car standard? modified? different head? all these things make a big difference.
a piper 285 cam on a standard car running not much more than 200bhp aint worth it.
go upto 300bhp and the standard cam starts to show that it is struggling.
this is where any reprofiled cam is better.

brett_

ill be lookin for over 200hp wen ive got all the bits, so standard cam is good for that yh?

Rick

Depends on your turbo, as these two have the greatest effect on the power curve.

brett_

it will be a stage 2 hybird turbo

Christian and Beccy

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IMO, as I've said before, you'll not hit 200bhp with a Stage 2 turbo until you go EFi (even then still depending on the skill of the mapper).

Rick

I ran a CVH 35 on a stage 2 on my first engine, it made 210bhp at 17psi on a few different rollers. It does lose some spool up, but it makes it a lot livelier at the top, peak power on mine was 6100.

Rick.

brett_

so will a standard cam be ok the use then????

xr2wishy

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i've run cvh35 klent cam and piper285T2, both great cams in their own right for power up the revs, both suffered premature wear and both cost a lot(ish)
to be honest on a new standard profile cam it's more driveable, but there is a definite torque drop high up the revs.