I like the acronym Broken Money Waster or Bought My Wife

Thanks Mick,

I was originally thinking about boring out the block, shave the head, port polish, triple SU's but then out of nowhere, I had a major problem with my other car (a BMW M3 of all things, DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE UNLESS IT IS BRAND SPANKING NEW) which required a full engine rebuild at a lovely cost of 13K, that's a month after doing the head gasket on the bloody thing@!!!!!

I hate that car, but at the same time i love it, because after a year of owning it (before my engine blew up), my hatred of its complexity drove me to look for another car that was simple in it's design. One that I could work on myself, and has a charm to it, a charm lost in today's cars.....which is when i found the EJ 

Anyway getting back on track, I am sure there is someone out there that has a very similar set up to the one i am going for....

Thanks for your help Mick, hope the engine finds its way into the car soon!

Hi All,

By way of Introduction, my Name is Nick, people call me lubey because of my surname (nothing sinister I promise).

I am new to this forum as I am the relatively new owner of an EJ. My question is surrounding waggott cams i see for sale at rare spares.

The numbering is confusing me. I am currently in the process of installing extractors & twin strommies, and i plan to do a little head work down the track. For now though i'd like to switch to Alloy cam gear, and also get a nice lumpy idle.

My question is, for the modifications i have at the moment (extractors & twin strommies) what would be the biggest overlap i should go on the grey without making it a pig to take off in. I am currently running standard 3 on the tree and standard diff, which i am not planning on changing.

I have seen on one forum that 30-70 is the most that you should go without having more serious work done to the engine, but then elsewhere i have been told 30-70 is way too much overlap.

The options at rarespares are 20-60, 27-61, 30-70, 40-80, and 23-60

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am not looking for much on the preformance side with this upgrade, mostly for the nice lumpy idle sound. but i don't want to have a situation where taking off from a standstill is difficult.

Thanks in advance

Nick