KR>Engine rebuild-high lift and short duration

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
Orma, When I built the engine for the Little Beast, I messed around with a lot of cams and seem to remember that our engines turn slowly, compared to racing engines. For that reason, I remember something about long duration. I hope that Bob Hoover will chime in here, because he is the expert. I

KR>Engine rebuild-high lift and short duration

2008-10-12 Thread larry severson
The VW shop looked at my setup. They said that the 120 degree cam would give me max torque at just under 4000 rpm. When I built the engine for the Little Beast, I messed around with a lot of >cams and seem to remember that our engines turn slowly, compared to racing >engines. For that reason, I

KR>Engine rebuild-high lift and short duration

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
Duration is how you shift the powerband either lower or higher. If you want lots of torque at low RPM and don't care about high RPM (that's us), you want short duration rather than long. If you've upped the displacement of the engine by boring and/or stroking, you'll probably need to compensate

KR>Engine rebuild-high lift and short duration

2008-10-12 Thread veedu...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/20/2004 4:09:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, da...@alltel.net writes: > I hope > that Bob Hoover will chime in here, because he is the expert. -- --- Dear Dan (and the Group), I don't