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its a good cam man.... i don't no how much cams cost it prob only cost fuck all....... as i sed it was jst a geuss....... it gives u good power it makes ur engine rev higher and sounds awesome!!!! people ask if my car is a rotary its that lumpy man..... do wat ever is cheapest tho.... btw i turned up to the hot rod show today it was all gud aparently it was beta yesterday tho..... i saw a mean as mk1 gt cortina a esky for sale and shit.... it was a mean day too.... jst got my esky back up and running today also so it was good to drive the old beast again.....

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yeah it goes straight in because the cam is made by kent..... and kent make the escort engine.... it is specifically desgined for the 1300/1600 engine of an esky...... yeah you are prob rite man i don't no how much cams cost because i have never bought one... i jst no wat they do how they work and how mean they are.... and the specs thats all...... who are u gunna get one ground by???

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Kelford have heaps and heaps of differant cam grinds for the 1600 kent. From standard to fast road to full race. They also can get in new pre ground Kelford cams to go straight in. Dont go with the GT grind, i had one in my 1600 and it is only just slightly higher lift than a standard grind (from memory). You can get the kents sounding damn lumpy witha nice cam, dont know bout sounding like a rotary tho :?

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yeah i was goign to just get a GT grind but was told i may aswell not even bother and same with the bcf2..... but the bcf3 sounds pretty good.... its wither that or the crow that i amlooking at with alot more cam lift (400 thou) than the bcf3 but around the same duration (280) will that be even more lumpy sounding?

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Guest ol_skool_esky

na it doesn't sound exactly like a rotor...... but peps are so dumb they think the only motor that can be that lumpy is a fucking rotor....... its easy to tell the difference between a rotor and a piston motor with a hot cam.... and yeah ur rite kelford make some great cams for the kent engine.....

crow also make great cams jerm you shuld go with wat suits ur car and wat u want best....... both crows and bcf3 are awesome cams...... check out the kent web site

http://www.kentcams.com

go product search the click on the make and go ford.... go to about page 2-3 and u get bcf1-3 specs..... theres also another kent cam that is very good i've heard.... an A6 but that is a full race cam with shit loads of duration so i wouldn't thnk of buyin that 4 a road car....

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im getting my cam ground at glendene engine reco's, and aparently jerm duration will give you power up the rev range, lift will give you it low down :)

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exactly why i have gone for high lift and not so much duration..... 400 thou valve lift is heaps more than the kent 234, 244 cosworth A2, A3 and bcf2, bcf3..... and 280 is less duration than most of them......

the duration also determines how long the valve is open when the piston is rushing to TDC so if you have to much duration the valve will hit the piston.... especially with your 1300 ones

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im getting my cam ground at glendene engine reco's, and aparently jerm duration will give you power up the rev range, lift will give you it low down :)

haha thats where i went.. John Simpson was the guy i think.. thats the place close to kelston high ay? man, check out the bronzy capri if its in there-pretty mean!

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yeah john simpson is the guy, are you talking bout his race capri? he was showing me the head and he reckons polishing your ports doesnt make any difference, hes not even gonna bother in his capri that he races

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it does make a difference....a BAD difference. You should not polish your intake ports but you should polish your exhaust ports.

The reason is that smooth polished intake ports cause the fuel to stick to the sides instead of going into the combustion chamber. rough ports help break up and atomise the fuel.

but for exhaust you want that shit out of there asap so smooth ports are good.

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yeah my ports are almost done and i have just been doing them with a grinding stone... and the guy who is helping me who has had ALOT of expierience building race engine (45 years) said don’t bother polishing it ... the finnish you get from the grinding stone is fine.... and the exhaust ports don’t need much done to them.... for that stageof engine i am building anyways...

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