How benificial is a the festivamotorsports cam in an aspire considering you need parts from an 88 festy to make it work in a 97 aspire?
Is it worth the work to do this "upgrade"?
Frankie
fully custom 88 festy (project doomsday) Febuary in 2012 calander
Blockspire: ken block replica aspire
AdvancedDynamix: "If you put the same kind of effort into your engine that you put into the rest of the car, well... it'll be epic". thanks man
Na just want to fiddle with what I have in the aspire lol the festy is were my money goes.
Just was wondering if what was work the time an money to do this upgrade??
Horsepower wise?, fuel economy wise?...
Frankie
fully custom 88 festy (project doomsday) Febuary in 2012 calander
Blockspire: ken block replica aspire
AdvancedDynamix: "If you put the same kind of effort into your engine that you put into the rest of the car, well... it'll be epic". thanks man
When I purchased the FMS street cam Roger advised that it should be run with the HLA rockers NOT the roller rockers of the Aspire nor the manually adjusted rockers of the early Festivas.
Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Lol no one has really got the question is this "mod" worth doing??
Frankie
fully custom 88 festy (project doomsday) Febuary in 2012 calander
Blockspire: ken block replica aspire
AdvancedDynamix: "If you put the same kind of effort into your engine that you put into the rest of the car, well... it'll be epic". thanks man
Lol no one has really got the question is this "mod" worth doing??
It depends on what you're after. The FMS cam will give you some extra HP.... How much depends on your set up. In a stock motor the gains will be minimal. If you port the head and add a free flowing exhaust (header or larger custom exhaust system) the gains will be greater. This is typical for any performance engine mod, be it a 4-cyl or big block V8. Your MPG will probably go down (more air flow=more fuel) as well. So, to answer your question;
IMO, I probably wouldn't install a cam on a 100% stock motor, unless I planned on doing supporting mods. It would be different if the stock cam was a poor grind and was holding back the potential of the rest of the motor, but in our case it's not. The roller design of the Aspire cam makes it even better if fuel efficiency is your goal.
fully custom 88 festy (project doomsday) Febuary in 2012 calander
Blockspire: ken block replica aspire
AdvancedDynamix: "If you put the same kind of effort into your engine that you put into the rest of the car, well... it'll be epic". thanks man
Made my gas mileage go to crap. Did notice more get up and go. I put the original back in. From what I've read, you need to re-work the head to do it right.
I haven't had my B6 running long enough to experience it, other than amazing throttle response. From what those who have installed the cam with a ported head and exhaust claim, it really pulls hard from around 3000rpm+
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