which first? Intake Mani or Cams?

[Mr.Tao]

Considering a 1g perspective, if installing one of these items first, which would benefit more? Intake Manifold or Cams?

 

[My96AWD]

cams will give you the most power.

 

[andymoraitis]

I have a tendency to agree that cams would be the next step. Once the cams are in, I would consider upgrades to the intake side and head if you really wanted to maximize the setup, but plenty of people go fast on stock heads and intakes. Cams all the way!

Hope that helps,

Andy

 

[90blacktsiawd]

I did cams first. I'm happy with my decision as they definately increased my top end pull significantly. Though now i'm looking into a SMIM to really pull all i can out of the setup. If your going to do both then i suppose it doesn't matter which you do first as the 2 will compliment each other and you won't be using their full potential until you have both.

 

[ian7321]

Ya I was looking at your mods and how is the top end? Also what kinda booost and airflow numbers do you see with your hybrid turbo setup?

-Ian

 

[90blacktsiawd]

The top end is good. Alot better than the stock cams. But i can still feel a bit of a drop off in power up top. Not nearly as noticable as before with the stock 90 cams. As for boost and airflow. I run 20 psi on pump gas daily. I can't really give you too much on airflow. I hit about 2200-2300 Htz of airflow after the signal correction by the Maf-t. I only have a logger right now so i can't do Lbs. of air till i get DSMLink. If someone can get me the formula to convert the numbers that would be awesome.

 

[bullettdsm]

Considering a 1g perspective, if installing one of these items first, which would benefit more? Intake Manifold or Cams?

I do like this question. A little bit of the chicken and the egg because these items help each other. The intake will allow you to flow more and the cams will allow you to use that flow. But given the choice of only being able to have ONE, I would also choose cams. The 1g intake flows awfully good and you can always give a good port and polish if you want to. But it will be difficult for you to weld up the stock cams and then grind them down . The cams alone will allow you to utilize more air in the top end. While the intake may allow for more flow you will want the cams to utilize it in the top end.
MB

 

[dalatinromeo]

I would recommend getting the cams first, but since you are getting both there is too much debate. But since you want to get one now I would recommend the cams to help you pull harder on top end. Let us know what happens when you install them

 

[OB1]

I gained 4 lbs/min after installing my FPCam2's and then another 3lbs/min from the Magnus SMIM. After the SMIM I also started reving to 8K as opposed to 7K with just the cams.

This is at 22-23psi.

 

[Mr.Tao]

Alot of people have said that the 1g intake isnt too bad so I was leaning towards the cams. But this seals it. Cams it is.