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03-20-03, 11:15 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Member  | | | | | Torque
Any ideas on increasing the torque on a 1974 472 without raising the powerband or spending tons of money? |
03-22-03, 05:49 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Age: 39 | | | Your best bet is to increase air flow.......port the heads, larger valves and aftermarket intake. |
03-22-03, 07:22 PM
|  | Cadillac Owners Master | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Indiana Age: 23 | | Put on slicker tires!!!   |
03-22-03, 11:43 PM
|  | Cadillac Owners Master | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Newtown, PA Age: 50 | | | What's done to the car so far? If it's stock, open up the intake and exhaust first. |
03-23-03, 12:24 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nevada, Still the land of the free! | | Quote: Originally posted by elwesso
Put on slicker tires!!!
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The brain fart count rises!! |
03-23-03, 09:16 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Master | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Newtown, PA Age: 50 | | I wasn't going to say it  |
03-23-03, 10:48 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nevada, Still the land of the free! | | | It had to be said! |
03-24-03, 06:29 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Master | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Newtown, PA Age: 50 | | | As long as ONE of us says it, right? |
03-24-03, 09:01 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nevada, Still the land of the free! | | Quote: Originally posted by Katshot
As long as ONE of us says it, right? | That's what I was thinkin'!!  |
03-25-03, 11:49 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Member | | | | | Thanks for the ideas. will porting the heads and going to edlebrocks intake raise the powerband? I need low rpm torque. |
03-26-03, 12:43 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nevada, Still the land of the free! | | | It could! Get the right cam for the kind of driving that you want to do! |
03-26-03, 12:47 PM
|  | Cadillac Owners Member | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nebraska | | | Have you contacted cad500parts.com (Flashcraft) or MTS (maximum torque specialties) ? If you havent, do. They will steer you right. | | Cadillac Discussion Tools | | | 
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