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More Power & Track Time

As is normally the case with new found power, you get used to it. I often joke that this is what keeps me in a job, yet as I’m finding out it also keeps me poor too. So it’s more power time, keen to shake the lame duck feeling we go for an EVO 9 Turbo, these are basically a slightly larger & more advanced design turbo than the std EVO 8 model & pretty much a straight bolt on. After tuning so many large cam equipped cars in the US I’m getting the urge for a bit more lope in the idle. My partner in crime in the US, Beau ,is also partners in a Camshaft company called Revolver Cams & he has sent me their latest baby 270 cams to try. Now you have to remember that by US standards baby doesn’t really mean small to everyone else in the world. For the mods we have at the moment this is probably over camed, but what the hell. We throw in a set of Adjustable cam pulleys so we can dial out some of the size of the cam if we have to. While we’re at it we throw on a Turbo XS bar & pla...