Anyone with aftermarket 5sfe cams?, Reliable? Options

[blu94gt]

Well I've been looking at bumping up the power in my 5sfe just for the sake of having a little more oomf on the highway and such, don't need a street machine or anything. I was going to do a full exhaust/intake, and adjust timing and such but can't do anything with it on a 99, and with the cams geared together you can't really do much with them to change overlap or anything. I found the Webcams 294 setup to be rated pretty well for a mild cam, puts power where it needs to be, etc. I just don't want to bother with a piggyback or standalone with this car, after tuning my WRX that way it just isn't worth it without all the performance to go with it.

Any other suggestions on cams? Maybe ones that are better/cheaper (cheaper is good lol) or a shop that will weld and re-grind my stock cams for a good deal?

[hurley97]

WebCams will make a custom grind for you if you ask. They can go for anywhere from $500-700 though. Manny was looking into Colt Cams for a while and they are supposedly cheaper and they grind away the stock cams and provide bigger shims to compensate as opposed to WebCams who do a hard weld and then regrind them which actually makes the cams a little bigger in the right places. Although I'm not sure of the results from the Colt Cams since I haven't heard from anyone who has gotten them, whereas I have personal experience with the cams from WebCams in two cars.

As far as reliability, I'm not sure what you mean by that but they really don't change anything in terms of making the car more or less reliable than it already is. You would get a little more out of them from a piggyback fuel control system but I know with my cams I really didn't make huge changes to the fuel trims and the car was just fine without any corrections anyway (pre-turbo that is).

This post has been edited by hurley97: Jan 26, 2009 - 7:13 PM