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Old 11-24-2002, 11:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Cam gears and FI

What benefit do cam gears give to FI rides?? Please give a good explaination too. Yes Im doing a search........to whoever was gonna post that..........
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For turbo or JRSC?
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In general, cam gears allow you to pick up a few more horses by allowing you to dial in the cam timing. Adjusting them is something that needs to be done on a dyno. However, on a JRSC they are impractical because of the lack of access to them (pulley plate is in the way). You would have to take apart quite a bit just to adjust them, put them back together, run it on the dyno, and then tear it all apart again to adjust them again, and then run it on the dyno again.... Or you could have fashioned some sort of custom pulley plate that has a series of holes in it so you could access the gears. Here is a thread where the idea was discussed quite a bit:

the JRSC pulley support bracket and cam gears......
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Yeah, I am aware of that, my question is though how do they pick up hp? What do they mess with? Can overlap between the intake and exhaust valves be taken out?
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yes, you would/could use them to dial out the overlap between the intake and exhaust cams. might want to check with the integra and civic guys if you're interested in cam gears and the jrsc, since there are lots of people using them there.
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OK so do you just retard one or both gears to reduce overlap? Or both? Why?
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What about with turbocharging? What's the tuning goal with cam gears on a turbocharged engine?
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What about with turbocharging? What's the tuning goal with cam gears on a turbocharged engine?
The same.
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As mentioned before the concept of adjusting cam gears is to dial out overlap so as to counter the effects of blowby. The H22 seems to benefit greatly from this adjustment, gaining nearly 15whp on a turbo setup. However, you will hear different things from boosted hondas...the B motor people feel that vtec + FI seem to make a great combination, but again what works for other honda motors usually doesn't work on the H22. I have personally yet to see someone make more power with more overlap or at least stock cam settings over the cam gear adjustment. I don't know if anyone has done this for the JRSC, but like shark said, it's just not worth taking the JRSC off and putting the car on the dyno, again.
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