Yep the valves stayed open too late so the question is what Cam was in place as the lift and duration has as much to do with it as the cam timing. That also appears to be the RMW head so would think somebody was trying to move the torque curve down but if they did indeed use a cam gear who timed it? With the way they broke in next door cylinders would have thought a hand turn would have caught it before the engine was started up.
I would be surprised if somebody that paid the money for a RMW head would be running a 250 duration Dominator Cam but rather something more like a 264 or 288 duration. Those last two would take advantage of the bigger vales. The stock oem cam has a 244 duration so the Dominator is not that aggressive relative to duration.
While on cams the other thing that should be noted is that if the cam "shaft" is standard, then anything with a lift of 0.400 or higher will contact the spark plug tube.
Last as the RMW cams are Newman cams, anybody that does business with them can most likely get all the information along with where the duration start point is.
Looking forward to seeing that.. like Project Binky, love seeing stuff get made.
Agreed... that would be classified as a bad day. I actually had a very expensive one end up like that on my 93M5. Turned out the head shop made a mistake and decked the block (thought it was for a different customer) unknown to me. I didn't to a pinch test as it wasn't supposed to be. Amazingly I got 17K miles out of it... but one night was running it pretty hard when all of a sudden it let go. Was like 12am and I was stuck for over 2 hours getting a tow truck. Expensive mistake.
You always have to be careful with peck's on the cheeks. That could be interpreted as inappropriate advancement which will come back to haunt you over time.
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