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25th October 2007, 12:32
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i love the sound of a cammed saxo, the lumpy engine noise on idle is music to my ears!
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25th October 2007, 16:56
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My AX VTS had cams and it abliterated Type R's but then again its a lot lighter than a Saxo.
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25th October 2007, 17:01
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: MEASHAM United Kingdom (England)
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dont wory mate. mines stripped lol. only way forward!
Guuted though. went home at dinnertime and when i started her up again, my head gasket blew. white smoke coming from the exhaust big time! parts are allready on there way and its another excuse to get her skimmed and up the compression a bit more  might flow my inlet mani a bit better too 
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25th October 2007, 18:45
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Wasn't that headgasket quite new???
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25th October 2007, 20:09
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10 months old mate. is that really bad that its gone? am i doing something wrong?
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25th October 2007, 21:18
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no way should it go that quickly. maybe a few years of hard use but not ten months!!!
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25th October 2007, 23:25
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Originally Posted by spencer_cammedvts
10 months old mate. is that really bad that its gone? am i doing something wrong?
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Did you get the head skimmed when it went last time?
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25th October 2007, 23:42
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Did you put it on yourself?
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26th October 2007, 08:09
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yer i put it on myself. iv done everything myself bar the remap. its one of the water chanels thats broken through to one of the cylinders. so al least i aint got to flush everything. obviously it makes sense to do an oil & filter change now. but i dont know what i was doing wrong. i had 12 thou skimmed off last time so compression was up a bit. dont think that would make all that much off a difference though! ill get it skimmed again but not really sure how much to take off to be safe. probably just get 4 thou taken off to be safe. as iv got the 708's in aswell. what do you lot recon?
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26th October 2007, 12:36
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I’d make sure you get it completely flat or the headgasket will just keep going… you could take it to a specialist to get it measured up properly to see exactly how much needs taking off… then work out how much clearance you have with the 708s and if there’s enough clearance you could increase the compression ratio a bit. You will probably have to use a thicker gasket to stop the valves clashing if you take too much off
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26th October 2007, 12:53
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i cant remember what the clearence is with standard head fitted with 708's. can anyone enlighten me? how much clearance do you want ideally?
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26th October 2007, 15:48
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Think it would be a pain in the arse to work out as it would depend on the cam timing as well… if it wasn’t clashing with 12thou skimmed off you could just take off what you need so that its completely flat and get a thicker headgasket to match… so say you take 6tho off just get a headgasket + 6thou? Then you know for sure it won’t clash.
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26th October 2007, 16:15
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i think its justy over 1mm clearence at the mo so i think ill be safe to take off another6though. (0.15mm)
well soon see!
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26th October 2007, 19:11
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i have a 106 gti and would like to get it cammed. which cams is it you can fit without needing a remap?? and what are the gains like with these??
reason i ask is i live on the isle of wight and there is really anywhere to get a remap 
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27th October 2007, 08:12
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you can fit any cams without mapping but you car will run really bad and you will only gain about 2bhp from them you have to get them mapped really if yuo want to see any gains. get over here and get it mapped. you wont regret it
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27th October 2007, 15:41
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yeah thats kl, but i mean im going to have to fit the cams the drive all the way to get it mapped with the car running like a bag of poo.
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27th October 2007, 15:56
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put cams in mine a month or 2 back, and you do supprise ppl, especially with a s1 box 
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27th October 2007, 16:18
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does camming the vts really make alot of diffrence then ??
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27th October 2007, 16:39
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Quote:
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does camming the vts really make alot of diffrence then ??
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well wot do you think 120bhp to around 150/160bhp
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27th October 2007, 16:42
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more then likly feal the diffrence then lol whats it like in relation to speed does the top end get any better or well after the 100 mark ?
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