Which cams should i use?

[MoonlightGT]

i have a 96 GT 5 spd. its bascially stock only mods are
Mac catted h pipe
Mac catback
70mm throttle body
trickflow upper plenum.

i just bought a PI intake manifold and i want to use aftermarket cams. But which ones are the best ? what kind of power increase will i get versus using the PI cams? is it worth it? Is it alot harder to install aftermarket cams then PI cams? as far as degreeing and timing and such.

 

[Willis_98GT]

i'll go ahead and jump in here on this..

dude just to get it stuck to your mind go to youtube and type in vt stage 1 and vtstage 2 to listen to idles.

i'm about to get a pi intake manifold too so i'm curious also. i've heard that pi cams are a slip in deal with no degreeing or timing issues. but whenever you get aftermarket stage 2 or 3 cams you have to degree and grind and shit like that. whenever i do it i want a basic deal.

but my mods are pretty basic too...

 

[QTRHRSE]

i used comp 274's with no issue and they pulled real hard up top... and sounded ridiculous

but i had ported PI heads

 

[DropTopPony]

With stock NPI heads you won't be able to run aftermarket PI cams without offset retainers. For aftermarket NPI cams i would go with Crower NPI's or some Comp 262h or 268h both are for NPI...you should degree them but they are low lift so i doubt you will have any ptv as long as you install them straight up.

The Crowers will probably pick up 10-20hp over the PI cams which is good but not alot of hp for the $$$$

 

[voidfinger]

yea thats true, +1 to what Drop said. I'm kinda stuck on it, since everyone on here likes to keep the npi heads and jump to pi cams and intakes. I would go for the whole pi swap. If your gonna do the intake and cams, why not spend another 300/400 dollars and get some heads and get them swapped out and you will have a better flowing head "stock for stock" and the added boost of 1.5 Compression ratio... which in itself makes a very nice idle. , should be a killer ride too.

Ps. I think your car is hot dude, i really like the color and the set up. Sweet.