Looks like there is new hope for future high-performance parts that are not OEM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvZFFOShJMThought

 

Exciting...... time to start rolling up the change...

 

You can hear his excitement in the video, the amount of work and knowledge he has with these motors is impressive. This is one area I wanted to address before supercharging.

 

those lobes seems to not have the ramp up of duration at any point of the lobe...just lift. lets see how they perform. camshaft design is very difficult to perfect. they do look nice. they look to have a nice amount of lift.

 

I think you were looking at the stock cam, the billet cams have quite a bit more duration.

I'm excited to see how they perform, if you could see close to 30whp gain it might be worth it. And at the same time upgraded your lifters to black series sls lifters as well.

 

If the price is right on these... I’m in

 

Part 2 - I like them even more now. Count me in. Gulf Performance Parts makes them. gulf-performance.com.

 

Love this guy

 

I'm ready for the results!!!!! And if not outrageously priced definitely worth it I bet.

 

4k minimum I'm afraid

 

If around 4-5k although expensive not too bad I think. I think since tasos has a lot of 156/9 following that they could sell quite a few sets to limit costs.

I mean 1k for a pair of non billet 4 cylinder race cams is expensive, but if these perform well in a N/A, FI, and combo variations then it might be the only decent option we have.

I mean if an gains can be at least 30whp and FI gains 50-70whp it might be worth the skratch, skratch.

Edit: you have to expect the Mercedes tax, I've come to terms with it modifying my car.

 

Oops already posted.

 

4k USD and without a dyno graph = pass

The max gain will be 30hp at the engine pushing it

 

I don’t know if they can get the timing right I can see them picking up 30 wheel fairly easily the m156 has some pretty tame cams in it definitely room for improvement performance wise

 

Seems early to dismiss them, already the quality looks better. Your common makes me ask the only real important question once dyno numbers and Tasos approve these as quality upgrade camshafts over OEM stock ones. And that is, what is the cost different between stock oem cams and these.

 

Im telling you from experience from last week we gained a total of 30hp on a TEST set of cams with tuning last week on a forged motor that makes 1000hp

There is no real gain vs costing on pocket for cams

 

4K for 4 cams isn’t bad.

 

Its not bad but need more confirmation for boost applications

 

It’s hard to gain power on cams without giving up idle quality. Look at DADSC63 cams. I’ve spoken to Keith and he told me the idle was severely changed. Race car application. He gained 40 whp n/a on these sticks. These are hard cam profiles to make better from OEM without sacrificing an aspect of the drivability. Yes you can make power on cams with this car. It’s been done. But for the cost vs output a supercharger is the way to go. Time will tell what Tasos cams put out.

 

If it solves premature cam lobe wear and lifter failures, then I’m sold. Its compatibility with FI will just be bonus.

 

Replacing a known wear component that will potentially add the same power if not more than headers at a marginally higher cost honestly seems good to me as well

 

This is a $10-15k job when it’s all said and done. Will want to replace lifters maybe with the SLS BS, stronger valve springs also from SLS, maybe do some head work or at least a valve job while it’s apart, replace cam adjusters, all seals gaskets and bearings, labor if you’re not doing it yourself, plus custom tuning. Unfortunately it’s not really “marginally” more than headers.

 

We Just posted a Video on Facebook of a CLK63 with our Camshafts... $2999 willing to work a group buy if you all are interested.

 

Iirc I thought he was aiming for plug and play. But yes I would go the same route all minus a port and polish. Although it would make sense to do it all, “while you’re in there”.

 

Our cams have been out for a while now
https://www.vrpspeed.com/product/vrp156camshafts/