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Originally Posted by Slidin' Sam
BC valve springs will work with any camshaft. BC valve springs are A LOT stiffer than stock, so they will handle high rpm abuse and help ensure the safety of your head/engine.
What are your concerns regarding tuning that you wanna meet someone for?
Since your in Japan, not too many people know about the 2871 turbo, they all use gtrs, which is the closest one to it...
Stock fuel rail is fine.
Do you drift and if so, where at?
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Yeah, actually I was planning on running a GT-RS at one point till I found out a 2871 is cheaper, and puts down similar power. A few of my friends here have the gtrs on their drift cars and love them.
I guess since I live in the country that has so many famous tuners that know the SR in and out, I'd be interested in talking to guys that build them all day long. My Japanese isn't that great yet, but I'm hoping to live here for a while and learn what I can from guys. Same goes for when I'm in the states, but there aren't a lot of 240 guys in virginia that aren't ricers.
Don't have a drift car yet here, but when can afford one and a place to keep it I will. For now I've been going to Mobara twin circuit when I get free time.
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Originally Posted by codyace
Jim Wolf Technology S3 cams (260* 11.2ish lift)
Stock Springs
Stock Retainers
8,000 rpm all day, without any issue.
Typically not found in the automtovie world, but as the whole, it's the best setup out there, while being the cheapest overal. Bolt in like stock, no need for cam gears either. These cams prove themselves constantly both NA and Turbo....and IMo are the best cam out there to mate with a 400 hp 28RS or 2871 .64 car. Dump truck torquey midrange and some nice lift to boot.
By the time you go out and buy all of the fancy springs/retainers/nonsense from BC, and then the crappy cams, you'll have over 1000 dollars into your head, and make less than the JWT Setup.
The bigger thing to worry about are properly designed parts, that actually work with the engine. Unlike BC, JWT actually does true cam reserach and development (beyond just throwing a duration/lift out there and hoping it works) they have extensive development in their lobe profiles and ramps (go figure as they make a big lift cam that is safe on stock stuff).
To me the BC stuff are really just improperly designed for the engines...but this is what you get with a copy cat company. Sure it may work, but work well is another. Not my valvetrain as they say, and I can point out countless first hand examples of both turbo and N/A variety to me that have been running S3's forever, without an issue, all making great power.
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It's funny you say that, because I've had a few guys I know back home that sold their BC cams and got Tomei, JWT, or Greddy. It could've been that they were just going a different route with the motor, but I'm not sure. It's good to know the JWT S3s will work fine with stock springs and retainers, I may just go that route.
The only thing I've taken out on the head has been the cams, should I just leave the springs and retainers, etc as they are or replace them with new? (engine has about 100k miles on it and compression was good (i.e. 150 range across all cyl) when I bought it)