i have a d16z6 with headers, 2" exhaust, long cold air intake, what will be the best timing using the aem cam gear that i will be installing soon, degrees on retard or advance

 

none. stock motors won't be helped by cam timing. 2" exhaust and intake don't constitute the use of adjustable cam timing.

 

Maybe, just maybe, you can get just a smidgen more power than the other guy by increasing valve overlap by 1-2 degrees each way, and still not have the valves touch the pistons. The usual disclaimers apply,
and I would check all my clearances BEFORE I do a final assenbly
of my motor.-Bob

 

u are wrong on the stock motor not getting any benifit from timing. i did it on my ls swapped del sol. internally stock with header intake and exhaust, i slapped some cam gears on and set them the way a friend of myne told me to. hes a local tampa guy that chips ecus n stuff (his name is kenji if u have ever heard of him). any ways, i set the gears at +2 on the intake and -1 on the exhaust, set the dizzy to 18 degrees of timing and put premium in a stock ls motor, and the car woke up. it wasnt like spraying or boosting, but it was a notable difference throughout the whole rpm range. id say, go to his site Kenji's ECUs and Conversion Harnesses and send him a message askin him what he recomends (im not familiar with single cams enough to tell u). if anything, u may want to get a header and a bigger exhaust first, but ull still benifit from the timing. granted, bigger cams, more mods, and a better tune would help in these benifits from timing, but saying that stock motors dont benifit at all is a lil overboard. a little more over lap is better than none. ask around or find a tech book to c where to set the gear, make sure u set the distributor right, and ull notice a difference. good luck and email me if u cant get ahold of kenji, n ill ask him.

 

you would get more hp if you took off the headers and installed just one header. I also would not mess with it unless you had cams.

 

its a single cam...so it needs a cam. but ur rite, with a bigger cam he would get more power, but u can still get a lil bit from stock cams.

 

thanks sleepinsol, i emailed him

 

did he get back to u yet?

 

o ya....he will chip ur ecu for 50 bux too.....gave my motor a lil more umph as well. just a thought. outa make a mini me if u want some real decent power from ur single cam.

 

dude its a single cam, and he didn't ask about ignition timeing. and a ls motor is more performance oriented than a sohc. wow.