Any easy way to tell if my car is cammed?

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  1. StarFox07 New Member

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    When I bought my lx about a week ago, the owner said it had a "high rpm" cam, but I really have my doubts as to the validity of this. Is there a way to tell besides opening up the engine to see? If I posted a video of the exhaust note on idle, would you guys be able to tell me? I dont want to buy a cam and discover it already has one. I wont be able to get track times for a few weeks, so I can go on that, and it has other mods (p/p heads, 3.73's) that might throw that off anyways.
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    post a clip, i might be able to tell...
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    verry likely someone would have changed the cam if any other work was done
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    Yeah, but there isnt much lope on idle, i was thinking about doing an E-cam, do those lope pretty good on idle?
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    if you want more of a lope, the b cam would be better.
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    my stock cam works fine...but the lope at idle sound's like "don't ***** with me you little rice rocket
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    Stock cam with lope? :rlaugh:

    You should be able to tell by the way it idles. Usually any aftermarket cam is noticeable over the stock cam.
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    stock cam would lope but if u have dumps or cut offs it can give it a lil bite of a cammed sound
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    lol not mine I ment an aftermarket would sound like that but my stock one works fine (for now)
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    I can't wait to get rid of the stock cam. Gonna do a MAF swap first though. Not much beats the sound of a cammed 5.0 though...plus the stock cam sucks above 4500 RPMs.
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    mine pulls verry hard till 4800 then it pulls ok till 5500 but after that it goes flat kinda
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    My falls on it's face after 5k. lol Just completely stops pulling.
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    post a vid of the exhaust, we will be able to tell if it has a cam or not. If the thing pulls hard past 5k rpms, like doesnt run out of steam, then it probably has a cam.
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    Sorry I have to laugh..every time I hear someone trying to sell a stock fox the car always MAGICALLY aquires a set of 'ported and polished heads and a cam (often name not provided)'.....my bet is your best off saving for a nice set of cylinder heads and not worry about installing a cam that won't help ya worth a damn with your E7's in place. A set of good heads will net you EXCELLENT power and are fairly easy to install...a cam install is a pain in the ass in my opinion and with stock heads not going to give you any more than a little ego boost in the audible department and 10hp on the dyno...your choice.
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  16. DMAN302 My mom says thanks for the pearl necklace.

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    Ok thats what I thought. Well that means theres room for improvement. :)
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    yessir lol thats a stock cam.
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