Scott Boda here from Steeda Autosports to talk to you about our Steeda
#18 Camshaft for your '85 to '95 GT, V8-powered, Ford Mustang.
We're talking about the Steeda #18 Camshaft for the Fox Body Mustang.
As most of you know, Steeda's been around since 1988,
but founder Dario Orlando has been racing all of his life.
And it was at that point in the late 1980's that he knew he needed a better
camshaft than the offerings from Ford Racing. He
needed something with a split duration. These cylinder heads did not flow very
good on the exhaust side. So, he wanted something with a little more duration,
which is going to hang that exhaust valve open a little longer
to maximize the efficiency of the 302 push rod V8. So what he did, was he got
with David Bligh at Crane Cams, and he came up with the
Steeda #18 camshaft. It offers a lift of 480 with a
1.6 rock run. But if you add a 1.72 that jumps up to a 516 lift and like I
did say earlier, it does have a split duration. What
that's going to do is try to help the poor-flowing exhaust
port to try to maximize your cylinder
efficiency. In fact, it was the Steeda #18 cam with our GT40
heads and intake package that allowed the Fox Body mustang to go
into the 11 second range naturally aspirated. And that's all the
way back in the 1990's, which is a huge accomplishment! It
actually works very good as a blower cam. Once again, we'll go back to that split
duration. When we're hanging that exhaust valve open longer,
we're trying to help get out that cylinder pressure with a supercharger.
You're forcing air into the motor. That extra exhaust duration
is really going to help you make more horsepower to those rear tires.
The beauty of the #18 shaft is it's awesome drivability. It's going to
give you that nice lope, that chop that you like to hear.
It does have a cam in it, so you hear that lope every time you come into a
stop. Feels really nice, sounds good.
For the same token, offer you great low end
and good high RPM horsepower. We're looking
at increases in horsepower from the 3000 to the 6000 RPM range. The ideal buyer
for this cam is going to be that individual that
wants to get a little bit more out of their car, right?
They want to get a little bit more horsepower, they're thinking about adding heads and a
cam. These cars came with 225 horsepower
stock, and only made about 180 to the rear tires.
You do a good set of heads and intake on it and add that Steeda #18 cam,
and you're guaranteed to make 300 horsepower to the tire
through a five-speed transmission. The other thing with this camshaft is
it put Dario on the map, not only in road racing,
but at the drag strip. At the time it was the fastest
naturally-aspirated Mustang with a stock bottom
end in it. It's something that we still do today, about 32 years later, in our world
record-breaking Steeda Silver Bullet. So what we got
behind us here, is the owner's 1993 fox body mustang.
I always like to tell people a pretty cool story about this car.
It was Valdosta, Georgia, 2018. We were celebrating
30 years of being incorporated. This absolute
gem of a Fox Body rolls into the lot, 64,000 miles. Dario gives us a nudge and
says, "Hey. go find out who owns that car." "What do
you mean?" He goes, "I need another Fox Body. My first
Fox Body was white, and I want another one." And you could
tell a clean Fox Body when one rolls by you.
64,000 original miles, two owners on the car.
We gave that guy a ride home that day. Dario bought the car
on site, put it under our wing, we sent it in the back,
did a Cobra 13-inch brake conversion, got a bunch of parts from our friends
over at Late Model Restoration. Heads, Intake, Cam package from our
friends at Ford Racing with their cylinder heads,
an Edelbrock Intake Manifold, and that Steeda
#18 camshaft, which I'm sure you want to hear with the camshaft sounds
like. So, we'll go ahead and fire up and let you
hear what she sounds like!
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