B230ft budget drift cam?

[2manyturbos]

M cams are good door stops.

 

[doucheNozzle]

Everybody needs to stop saying anything good about the M cam. It is trash.

You mean W.

 

[Tentshedtrev]

I've had a few drifty redblock builds. My fav combo was just a simple b230ft/ipd cam/15g/7k chips with 42lb injectors and 3' maf in a 1990 740. With the t5wc trans swap, 15psi or so, and a 4.10 diff from a 16v car, 2nd and 3rd were perfect on a 225/55/16 tire. Modded knuckles, some coilovers, IPD front sway and no rear sway, dual calipers plus some bucket seats finished off the build, I did a few YT vids iirc on my channel, Wish I followed the KISS rule when I started skidding, it was an absolutely amazing seattime car and just plain worked. I'd do something like that if I was to build another, save the rest of your cash for tires and track day fees.

 

[Quin]

Everybody needs to stop saying anything good about the M cam. It is trash.

M cams are good. it's just a T with more exhaust duration. the T stands for TORQUE but the M stands for MEGATORQUE.

The car has been dyno tuned on LH2.4, and made 235hp/321tq (!) at the wheels. How's that for an M cam?

 

[mikep]

M cams are good

M cams are only good for tamping dirt around fence posts and filling holes in the driveway.

 

[240 240]

Although partially true, I want to move the power up. The T cam chokes on the top end. For drifting I’m going to be holding the car in the range of 5-6k. Wouldn’t a B or H cam give me a better top end?

skip a tooth on the T cam. It will be in that range.

If you are truly in that rpm range for extended amounts of time
I hope you have experimented with smaller water pump pulleys.

and at 5krpm why don't you have a dump truck turbo in there?
We sre talking about a camshaft that adds 10ft lbs over a turbo that could add 100 ftlbs of torque

 

[240 240]

M cams are only good for tamping dirt .

in 4 pics of 3 Wcams welded together to a plate

 

[mikep]

Tell us you never set a fence post before without saying you never set a fence post before.

 

[mikep]

skip a tooth on the T cam. It will be in that range.

If you are truly in that rpm range for extended amounts of time
I hope you have experimented with smaller water pump pulleys.

and at 5krpm why don't you have a dump truck turbo in there?
We sre talking about a camshaft that adds 10ft lbs over a turbo that could add 100 ftlbs of torque

Y U HATE HAICH PEES HOSS?

 

[HiSPL]

OP, you can either listen to the extremely sage and well earned advise above, OR get some overnight parts from Sweden....

https://www.enem.se/ib.asp

But srsly tho. Just turn up the boost.

 

[240 240]

Y U HATE HAICH PEES HOSS?

PUT DAT MSD DISTREBUJTER ON AN ADFENCE THE TIMIN FORDY DEGREASE ITLL RUN HOTTER THEN DEB ON A HOT FLASH

 

[Radtap]

Everybody needs to stop saying anything good about the M cam. It is trash.

That's a wumbo cam to you sir

 

[dl242gt]

M cam suck unless you like a low rpm and low power setup. Oh wait Volvo did that for you.

 

[240 240]

M cam suck unless you like a low rpm and low power setup. Oh wait Volvo did that for you.

You know whats funner than driving a slow car fast? Driving a slow car slow.

 

[Ne7RideR]

After more research I think the KL T3 may best fit my application and only runs about $150

Pretty sure Kolton had a KLT3 in his newest 740 drift car and ended up taking it out because the lash caps came off the valves during a run where the engine was held at limiter. Dual valve springs might fix this issue.

 

[culberro]

Pretty sure Kolton had a KLT3 in his newest 740 drift car and ended up taking it out because the lash caps came off the valves during a run where the engine was held at limiter. Dual valve springs might fix this issue.

Yeah, valve float will do that