- Mar 24, 2018
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Hello all!
It’s been a while..
glad to be back
Anyways I have a 2001 Mustang V6 with 43k original miles (was 27k when I got it 2 years ago).
Anyways I want to slowly get more power out of it till it’s just barely breaking 300hp
To me that’s the perfect amount for a car like this. Manageable but not so much that id never use all of it. The motor is stock at the moment except for a cold air intake. However I’ve lowered the car by 2 inches and changed the exhaust to divorced duals to flowmaster 10 mufflers. Anywho as the title suggests I’m looking at an aftermarket camshaft. Now I found one called the “lumpy cam” on Supersixmotorsports.net and that seems like a good fit. It works with the stock heads which is a big plus as I’d rather not tear the block apart just yet. Now my question is with my car being so low mileage do I really need to replace valve springs, pushrods, roller rockers etc when changing my cam? It would make sense on a high mileage engine but on a low mileage engine it just seems silly.
I’m not gonna get a V8. Insurance where I live is night and day for the V6 and V8 model plus this engines got a lot of miles left so I’d hate to get a higher mileage engine just for an extra 60 HP stock.
How much would it cost for a shop to install said cam?
Same for valve springs push rods etc if I really need it.
I already got a tuner and made sure they are able to tune for the cam so that takes a large portion of the cost out of the way.
Any people who’ve done cams to their 3.8L advice would be very much appreciated! Cheers!
Here’s a pic of the Stang for those who want to see:
It’s been a while..
glad to be back
Anyways I have a 2001 Mustang V6 with 43k original miles (was 27k when I got it 2 years ago).
Anyways I want to slowly get more power out of it till it’s just barely breaking 300hp
To me that’s the perfect amount for a car like this. Manageable but not so much that id never use all of it. The motor is stock at the moment except for a cold air intake. However I’ve lowered the car by 2 inches and changed the exhaust to divorced duals to flowmaster 10 mufflers. Anywho as the title suggests I’m looking at an aftermarket camshaft. Now I found one called the “lumpy cam” on Supersixmotorsports.net and that seems like a good fit. It works with the stock heads which is a big plus as I’d rather not tear the block apart just yet. Now my question is with my car being so low mileage do I really need to replace valve springs, pushrods, roller rockers etc when changing my cam? It would make sense on a high mileage engine but on a low mileage engine it just seems silly.
I’m not gonna get a V8. Insurance where I live is night and day for the V6 and V8 model plus this engines got a lot of miles left so I’d hate to get a higher mileage engine just for an extra 60 HP stock.
How much would it cost for a shop to install said cam?
Same for valve springs push rods etc if I really need it.
I already got a tuner and made sure they are able to tune for the cam so that takes a large portion of the cost out of the way.
Any people who’ve done cams to their 3.8L advice would be very much appreciated! Cheers!
Here’s a pic of the Stang for those who want to see: