Re: Hi-Po Cams,and parts Limitations

From: W. Jack Hilton III (hemi@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 23 1998 - 10:33:32 EDT


At 09:23 AM 7/23/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I spoke to Dave Hughes of Hughes engines yesterday about increasing the
>performance of my Dak(my goal is mid to low 13s). He says he has been
doing quite
>a bit of work on the late model magnums and he has several customers that
race
>them competitively. He told me they have two levels of porting for the magnum
>heads and some juicy cam profiles to really wake them up. His cams are not
>emissions approved, but he said several customers have passed sniffer
tests with
>no problems. The one he was recommending was a dual pattern .512 .536 lift
>206/212@50 duration(with 1.6 rockers). They also do the necessary intake
mods and
>throttle body work as well. He said getting my truck in the 12s is no big
>deal(provided the traction is there) , but I'll start breaking
parts(namely the
>transmission and rear end). This is what I was afraid of. I know I can
replace the
>8 1/4 with a 9 1/4 , but I don't know what to do about the NV3500. He told
me to
>get in touch with some Dak racers who are having their NV3500s modified.
Perhaps
>I'll just do the headers, throttle body, milder cam and stage one porting
and se
>how the green monster does. What do ya'll think??.
>
>
>Andre Mauboussin
>95 Dak 14.7@94.5mph
>
>

Sounds great !

So they do TB mods on the Magnum , eh ?

Does he have a catalog ?

Jack Hilton

Black '98 R/T Club Cab

http://www.mindspring.com/~hemi/jbd1.html



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