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Changing Cam M stock to A stock 200

posted by  someone claiming to be jorn on  Thu Apr 29 19:27 CST 2004 [RELATED]

Hi there.

I have been reading up on Cam changes for the B series Engine and came to a rather suprising conclusion:

I have a stock B200F high compression engine, common in Europe. It is has 111 hp output and is thus very close to the B230, 116hp. Reason for the 2.0ltr version are mainly taxation reasons. It is fitted with the same M cam as the B230F.

Like so many I rearly go over 3500rpm so I am looking at increasing torque rather than HP (I don't think my engine ever delivered more than 85hp in its life, purely because I never reached enough rpms to develop that - do you rev all the way to 5000rpm?).

It seems the VX and other fancy cams increase the HP figure. Nice but not for me than.

The surpising conclusion from all my reading is that I should be looking at A-cams to achieve my goal: higher torque. There must be millions of A-cams in Europe. Like in Canada they were fitted standard on carb engines all the way till '91. Plenty of those around at the junkyard, you probably get one for $10.

Is this too good to be true, or is there really something to gain for me? Has anybody made this swap and how did it work out. What are the down sides, does it effect the emmisions?

Any info appriciated.

Jorn





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