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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:36 pm 
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Ride: EL Fairmont

Location: Mornington Peninsula
VIC, Australia

Hi,
Can anyone recommend someone in the Mornington/Frankston (vic) area to install a wade 1604 cam in my EL...
My normal mechanic said he could do it... but he didn’t sound confident to me, and he hadn’t heard of wade cams :(

I don’t mind travelling further towards melb… but mornington/hastings/frankston is closer to work.

I currently have PH4480, 2.5â€￾ mandrel bent exhaust, hight flow cat, K&N panel filter and AU T series intake. :twisted:

Thanks in advance! :D

edit... another (basically stupid) question, how much it this going to kill my fuel economy? Obviously the harder I drive it the more it will suck the juice... but has anyone got a similar setup and have some before and after figures for me? I get about 600kms to a tank now. :)

 

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Regency Red EL Fairmont - PH4480 - 2.5" exhaust - High flow cat/muffler - K&N panel filter - Mandrel bent air intake - T series intake - wade 1604 cam - 98 EL XR6 ECU - Whiteline lows - 17" ROH RT's - Koni yellows - DBA Slotted's - Green Stuff pads
NEED: LSD, chiptorque

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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:56 pm 
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dude i got about 400kms to the tank off mine

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:52 pm 
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f**k fuel economy ,, it fangs!!! ,,, well makes a big diff .. i got the 1004-112 :twisted: :twisted:

not too bad anyway,, the cam lift the rev range so ya can rev it out., but you wont notice it at low revs if ya wanna go gramma driving.

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:03 pm 
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Yeah fuel economy goes to s**t (well did for me).

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:29 pm 
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go to mornington car care, its down progress street off tyabb road, I got mine installed their, I got a 1004-14 spec cam put in, should have cost around $100 but ended up close to $400 cause my lifters were found to be f**k after removal of the rocker gear :?

john did a really good job, when it was installed the idle was s**t so he rang wade for me and they gave him the word on it and yeah, all up pretty good.

Edit: Now after I have done a bit to the motor i can still get 500-550 kms to a tank on economy, it all depends how u drive it, if i drive it on power mode ill be lucky to get 400 to a tank.

 

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