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How do cam gears and pulleys help?

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Old 05-03-2007, 10:42 PM
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Default How do cam gears and pulleys help?

I heard they make great differences in other cars, what about ours? Where the heck can I find them for our cars?
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Idea behind pulleys is usually less rotating mass which frees up power but your ac, alternator, etc whatever runs off the crank performs at a lower efficiency. Cam gears are so you can adjust your cam timing ie retard or advance your cams
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Toda makes some cam gears the s2000
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Do they actually make any power though? I picked up 8 whp in my old Prelude from a set of Skunk 2 cam gears, has any one made any gain from a set on the s2k?
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I'm sure they will make a small gain but I don't know if Anyone has tried them. All I ever hear is cams/cam gears make no power but I'm wondering if anyone plays with cam timing? Or if they just slap them on and hit the dyno.
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if you have ever seen your cam gears you would know what a pain in the a$$ it would be to make adjustments if they were adjustable
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Are they on the back of the head? towards the firewall?. I thought they might be a bitch.
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No there at the front of the head.
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You can get pulleys from RickS2k.com not sure if you'll be able to see any difference in power at all. And IMO I wouldnt go messing with the cams until you've maxed out pretty much everything else, a lot of money for a little benefit in power.
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