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Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 02:11 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

Originally Posted by WS Sick
I wonder if the equipment made a mistake possibly. I have less compression than you and a simular cam (GM847) in a stroker with better flowing heads, and my car has enough torque to rent out!!! I havent dynoed it yet but at the track the car hits 115 mph (3750 race weight).
The cars SOTPs meter says it peaks about 63-6400 rpm.
You can just feel that it doesnt have much torque.
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 02:11 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

Maybe checking out the cams specs in motor would verify your doubts.
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 02:21 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

Originally Posted by WS Sick
Maybe checking out the cams specs in motor would verify your doubts.
This is always a good idea!

As long as you have humans touching things there are going to be mistakes. Well... even with computers... but you know what I mean. There's always the chance that someone grabbed the wrong cam or maybe they didn't make it to the right box. That's why the act of "degreeing" a cam is so important. Whether you can or can't change the phasing.... doesn't matter as long as you can check it. That's the important thing.

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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 05:46 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

I need to check out the cam I was just hopping there was something that I could do before tearing into the motor. Does anyone thing that maybe I could have a bad torque converter, since it doesnt stall up or do you think that is just a result of having low torque?
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 10:51 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

Just my 2 cents, a converter can have an incredible affect on power transfer to the wheels. With the money that you have into your motor, that B&M would not be in my car.
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 10:56 PM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

I scheduled a dyno run at a different place just to get a second opinion before I start doing drastic things like tearing into the motor doing a converter swap.
Old Aug 20, 2004 | 09:03 AM
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Re: Someone please tell me why my car doesnt make more torque!

Originally Posted by Formula03
I scheduled a dyno run at a different place just to get a second opinion before I start doing drastic things like tearing into the motor doing a converter swap.
Thats probably a good idea, It will at least verify if th eother dyno was screwed.
I am really surprised that the peak HP was at such a high RPM.
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