davep Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I am thinking of buying some cam gears but dont no which way to turn. HKS ,AEM or others can i have some feed back which ones are the best iv heard that the hks ones damage to belt but i dont know how true this is please help:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I'd just stick with stock pulleys mate. Can get them chromed if you want a bit of bling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 is there much performance difference between stock and adjustable cam gears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonkin Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 i have read that the stock ones are already setup very accurately and unless you have an absolute beast of a car or you just want them to look 'pretty', i wouldnt bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 There is no performance difference unless you adjust them. No-one has ever posted up here about any useful gains from adjusting them so you're on your own, except Terry S did once try a lot of different settings and they all turned out to be worse. -Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 There is no performance difference unless you adjust them. No-one has ever posted up here about any useful gains from adjusting them so you're on your own, except Terry S did once try a lot of different settings and they all turned out to be worse. -Ian Mine were adjusted when the car was mapped for TTC setup, I'll check the settings next time I have the engine cover off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Mine were adjusted when the car was mapped for TTC setup, I'll check the settings next time I have the engine cover off. Any desperate attempt to recover low down grunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 so what your telling me its a waste of time and money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Adjusting the cam timing won't normally return more power, just move the power band elsewhere in the rev range. Plus there were some documented cases of the blingy cam gears wearing very fast, losing their anodised colours, stripping cam belt teeth....there's also the question of where 3-bolt cam gears are strng enough, maybe you should get a 5-bolt version... Personnally I'm not going to bother, unless I ever get into either the show 'n shine scene, or go big-power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 thanks you have made up my mind spend it else were cheers for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Annoyingly I now have a set of JUN cam gears in mine, set to.... zero. And they are covered up by the plug cover. I have my reasons. -Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Annoyingly I now have a set of JUN cam gears in mine, set to.... zero. And they are covered up by the plug cover. I have my reasons. -Ian I'll just keep the knock amp when it arrives then shall I Here's a pic of Ian's JUN cam gears. http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9945/cimg0001ak5.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Terry S Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 OK guys this was just from personal testing in 2002 I think, and has been repeated on the forum a few times over the years: We had the engine out of the purple car on an engine dyno to be mapped. It was a fully built engine, T70 turbo ( surging POS that was only on the car about 1 Month!). Ported Polished Head with 256 IN/264 EX cams, and HKS Cam gear. I had the dyno guys try various cam timing combinations and it always came back to the same thing. You could make more BHP, or more torque, but one was always detrimental to the other. We settled on the stock settings. ( Seems Mr Toyota isn't daft after all ) As for adjustable cam gear, if you must have them, make sure they have steel gear, I know from bitter personal experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I'll just keep the knock amp when it arrives then shall I I'm sure that's going to be a lot more use Here is a less blurry pic. -Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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