# My SpecV JWT Cams **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\ **Created:** [April 12, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768 "2005-04-12T03:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/1 "2005-04-12T03:24:57Z")
Pyrexx my JWT Camshafts are awesome, they were the first ones done in the city on my car, well with the valve springs, and I have had problems with the valve springs (I think that was the problem) and it was causing the SES light to come on saying Multiple Cylinder misfire, I put octane booster in my car and it fixed the problem. Octane booster ensures valves aren’t sticking, I had mills nissan do it and it was $1,800 for them to do the valve spring camshafts and BSRK, I would recomend the camshafts from JWT, they give you more power then the Nismo ones, but I think you should stay away from the valve springs, if boosting the Spec’s RPM up to 7200 is never going to be feasable then I would just do the Camshafts and leave the Valve springs unless you are afraid of bad misshifts and want the extra strenght of the JWT ones. BSRK I think is a must on this car tho, it makes the shift transition so smooth at high sppeds it feels like the engines never slows down, just contiuous pull. ---
**Author:** ![Silverboost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Silverboost](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silverboost)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/2 "2005-04-19T23:36:25Z")
OH MY GOD, you paid $1800 for a place ot do that. I would have done it for you for a measly $1200. 😉 Really though, all the thing you had done can be done easily in a garage over a weekend. Just think you just spent enough cash between the parts and teh labour to practically buy a turbo kit. Anyway, not trying to make you feel bad. JWT cams are great. ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/3 "2005-04-20T09:48:42Z")
Yeah, I’m going to go for cams this year, and I’ll probably do it myself. The only reason I didn’t want to do my MMI’s and SS Lines myself is because I didn’t want my motor falling out of the car if something went wrong, and I definately don’t trust myself to do any brake work with no experience. I might tackle the BSR myself too, we’ll have to see. I like working on my car, but when enthusiasm and lack of experience collide, the results can be UGLY. 🙂 EDIT: Oh, I forgot to ask - and this might sound stupid, but is there enough room to install the cams with the motor in the car? Looks kinda cramped on that side of the engine. I imagine there would have to be room - it would be stupid to have to pull to motor to install that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Silverboost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Silverboost](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silverboost)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/4 "2005-04-20T11:29:54Z")
Yeah you can put the cams in with the block in the car. I don’t have cams yet, but plenty of guys do and not once have I heard of anyone having to pull the block. AS for spending money on install, yeah I mean I had NISSAN DO my brakes because I put the rotors lines and calipers on all at once and I had some caliper issues that I wanted to make sure were fixed. Plus I wanted my lines pressure bled, but paying $1800 fro the BSR and cams is woah… ALOT. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/5 "2005-04-20T12:09:04Z")
I imagine it depends on where you go. The dealer I bought the car from, Ericksen Nissan in Edmonton, has an $85/hour shop rate. And yeah, $1800 is really steep. That’d pay for 95% of the mods I was planning on doing this year… ---
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/6 "2005-04-21T03:12:50Z")
The Valve springs were like a 6 hour job alone, they are apparently really hard to get out on our cars, so yeah could have saved some money there, or I would have done it myself, but I’m not gonna touch valve springs/ ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/7 "2005-04-21T09:58:35Z")
I should think it would be hard to mess a valve spring installation up, as long as you had the proper tools to torque the parts down with. Of course, I can say that having never done it on any of my vehicles… :E ---
**Author:** ![SRBURG13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@SRBURG13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRBURG13)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/8 "2005-04-21T10:46:16Z")
Ya, valve springs are hard to do, and usually you need a special tool for it to compress the springs. Had to do it a while back on Reg’s race car, and it was a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/9 "2005-04-23T18:47:42Z")
Yeah, Nissan had the special tool, and they had to modify the special tool for the valve springs to make it work, so yeah it’s a bitch to do, I recomend not doing this mod, unless you awre worried about some serious mis-shifts ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/10 "2005-04-23T19:09:31Z")
Yeah, or if we finally get any one of the 500,000 ECU upgrades that have been promised to us… :finger: ---
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/11 "2005-04-29T00:25:34Z")
Well according to Vboard it is pouintless to do valve springs cause we are never gonna be able to raise our idle regardless of an ECU unles we are Nismo/Nissan and can re-build our motor after every race. Raise your hand if thats you! :roll: ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/12 "2005-04-29T04:51:24Z")
Well actually, if you did the valve springs and an ECU upgrade is applied, I’d raise the fuel cut off to 6600 RPM, because the Spec gets a power spike from 6200-6500. According to the engine’s designer, the QR25DE should be safe up to 6700, but after that the piston speeds are off the map and the rods can’t take the strain. ---
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/13 "2005-05-11T00:53:13Z")
my car shifts at like 6480 ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/14 "2005-05-11T04:48:04Z")
Yep, mine too, if you let it. The fuel cut doesn’t happen until 6500. I don’t know how often I’d want to do that though, since it puts a hell of a lot of strain on our already weak rods… ---
**Author:** ![chasenyadown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chasenyadown](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chasenyadown)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/15 "2005-05-15T10:16:20Z")
If I were You I would just suck it up :finga: Just jokin man ---
**Author:** ![PyreXXX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@PyreXXX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PyreXXX)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-specv-jwt-cams/138768/16 "2005-05-15T10:18:07Z")
he he he, lemme know how that engine rebuild goes, man. 😃