Installed Crower stage 3 this weekend...
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I will preface this by giving props to Brian Crower for making something that worked BEYOND my expectations...
Though i still have the tune in the PowerFC for the Crower 2, i can honestly say that my car is about as fast as it needs to be...it felt like i had just gotten vtec, putting my foot into it DEEP as many times as i could...i could rave about it all night; gotta let the novelty wear off a bit ; )
Crower was not lying when they said 8k+....i would shift at 7500, since that is where my present tune it "tuned" to, and it wanted to keep going...scary stuff with a 90mm stroke, so i'll most likey tune for a fat pre-7500 band..
the installation went butter, as usual with Crower ****. The only thing about this cam is...the specs on the website are no where near the specs on the cam card...they are significantly higher on the card, i mean this cam, according to the grind card, has .468 lift...... on the exhaust side! That means that all the time, since vtec is solely on the intake side, that you will have sick *** .468 lobes snapping away. This makes for a VERY noisy cam, especially on the exhaust side...i have upgraded LMA's, Gude used to sell these, i believe they are ITR pieces. Despite going thru the lash two times, it's not the lash. It simply is a noisy piece, so much so that my knock sensor meter on my PowerFC is showing a significant jump in activity at idle and lower RPM...all from the mechanical activity and noise from the cam. The idle, i can imagine, would lope a shitload on a setup with simply a chipped ecu, however, my PowerFC's idle stability feature is a god send and keeping things real at 1100 or so.
I will be dynoing very soon; i am still debating whether or not to get an improved intake manifold, just gotta find one for the right price.
If you have a sohc vtec with a ported head, get this cam. You will not be dissapointed!
also, here are the cam cards, stage 2 vs. stage 3-
Though i still have the tune in the PowerFC for the Crower 2, i can honestly say that my car is about as fast as it needs to be...it felt like i had just gotten vtec, putting my foot into it DEEP as many times as i could...i could rave about it all night; gotta let the novelty wear off a bit ; )
Crower was not lying when they said 8k+....i would shift at 7500, since that is where my present tune it "tuned" to, and it wanted to keep going...scary stuff with a 90mm stroke, so i'll most likey tune for a fat pre-7500 band..
the installation went butter, as usual with Crower ****. The only thing about this cam is...the specs on the website are no where near the specs on the cam card...they are significantly higher on the card, i mean this cam, according to the grind card, has .468 lift...... on the exhaust side! That means that all the time, since vtec is solely on the intake side, that you will have sick *** .468 lobes snapping away. This makes for a VERY noisy cam, especially on the exhaust side...i have upgraded LMA's, Gude used to sell these, i believe they are ITR pieces. Despite going thru the lash two times, it's not the lash. It simply is a noisy piece, so much so that my knock sensor meter on my PowerFC is showing a significant jump in activity at idle and lower RPM...all from the mechanical activity and noise from the cam. The idle, i can imagine, would lope a shitload on a setup with simply a chipped ecu, however, my PowerFC's idle stability feature is a god send and keeping things real at 1100 or so.
I will be dynoing very soon; i am still debating whether or not to get an improved intake manifold, just gotta find one for the right price.
If you have a sohc vtec with a ported head, get this cam. You will not be dissapointed!
also, here are the cam cards, stage 2 vs. stage 3-
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