Every cam is a nitrous cam! Wait, I mean every cam is a turbo cam! Wait, I mean… well, okay here’s the deal. Richard Holdener is sort of famous for saying that every cam is a turbo cam, and people laugh about it. Well everyone except the people that just can’t stand it when he says it. Those are the people that want to talk about ideal situations and aren’t really living the in the real world with the rest of us. Here’s what I mean.
If you take any good running engine, in any car or truck, and spray nitrous and fuel into it then it will make more power than it does without the nitrous and extra fuel. And if you bolt a supercharger or turbo onto that same engine and give it boost and extra fuel it will also make more power. Period. It does NOT care whether you put a new camshaft in it or not, it is going to make more power than it did before the nitrous or before the boost. Period.
Now, if you want that engine to make the absolute maximum power that it can with either nitrous or boost, then there are things you can do to improve the power output and a camshaft would likely be one of them. But it is not a requirement for making more power. This also means that just about any performance camshaft will also make more power with nitrous or boost than it did naturally aspirated. Do you see where I’m going here?
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Video Description:
HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT JUNKYARD LS CAM. DO I NEED A DEDICATED NITROUS CAM WHEN RUNNING NITROUS? DO I NEED A DEDICATED BLOWER CAM WHEN RUNNING A BLOWER? DO I NEED A DEDICATED TURBO CAM WHEN RUNNING A TURBO? CAN I RUN THE SAME CAM ON MY NA 4.8L, 5.3L OR 6.0L LS, THEN ADD NITROUS, A BLOWER OR TURBO? DO I HAVE TO CHANGE THE CAM WHEN I ADD NITROUS, A BLOWER OR TURBO? CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO WHERE I RAN THE SAME BTR TRUCK NORRIS CAM ON A NA MOTOR, A NITROUS MOTOR, A BLOWER MOTOR ANDA TURBO MOTOR, ALL WITH IMPRESSIVE RESULTS. IN FACT, YOU WOULD HAVE THE SAME RESULTS WITH ALMOST ANY CAM.
