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Location: Geelong, Vic
Registered: November 2004
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Re: 18RG piston clearance
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Mon, 06 December 2004 00:01
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For Race configuration- Treat the head to a competition port and polish with the most aggressive cams usable. You may need a custom intake manifold because stock manifolds will be the limiting factor to the port job. The big valves and dual valve springs are mandatory (they are bigger than the largest stock valves). The crankshaft and rods must be prepped- stress reliefed, heat treated, line-bored. Optionally rods may be upgraded to Carillos. Piston clearance is critical since these are high revving engines, follow the piston manufacturers tolerances. Piston valve pockets must also match the camshaft and valves used. The oil pumps in the 2TG and 18RG are different from the single cam models, try to use the original Twin Cam pumps, specially when converting to the 3T block. If available the TRD oil pumps must be used for the 2000cc 2TG. The oil pan has to baffled, specially for race and rally use. For the Full Race set-up use 320 intake and 304 cams. For the Rally set-up use 304 /288 or 304/272 cams. For the Street racer, the 304/304 set-up is very streetable and have a nice mild lobe at idle. It is very discrete! These cams cannot be used with stock pistons!! (The 288/272 cam set-up maybe used with stock pistons, as long as the head has not been cut.) Naturally adjustable gears are needed for the cams.
So it appears that in order to avoid having the piston pockets recut not to go over 288/272 cams
taken from
http://www.toysport.com/Technical%20Information/2t g_18rg_3tg_tech_notes.htm
Does anyone know the specs for any of the TRD cams
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