Any experience with really wild 16V cams?

Hi I'm a newbie hereI'm from South Africa and have a MKII racecar.I'm building a 1900 KR with 83.5mm pistons and STD crank. I ran the 2004 season with 268 cams (shrick grinds from Estas billets),45 Webers and STD compression and it made 124Kw at the flywheel. This unfortunately isonly good for a lower midfield placing,as most of my rivals have 141-148Kw and 2lit ABF motors[:^(].


The new motor has a gasflowed head and a 12:1 CR. It willrun on race fuel only (102.6 octane).I can get a set of 288 Schricks, but my revlimiter is still the stock 7200rpm one. Any experience on these relatively wild cams. Take in consideration that I run a short 4.2:1 final drive and almost never go below 5000rpm on track. Any advice appreciated

 

chrisP ran some 280s in his kr

 

And....how did it go?

 

like a bag of spanners, i have a RR graph of it somewhere

i'll have a look, lots of top end

 

Best bet would be to ask someone who's raced a 16v.

Grant Motorsport have massive experience of race 16v engines. 230bhp+
from their 2.0 16Vs. High rev limit and the internals that go with it, good
head work, throttle bodies, 300+ degree cams...

 

Hmmm. That post actually made it sound a bit too easy!

 

@ Greg

16v cams < shudder >

 

Might be some info in this thread about cams...

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52550&PN=1

 

Cool thanx! Interesting threads - I'll work my way through them