Cam Profiles
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 16 July 2007

The folllowing are stock cam profiles from pretty much all the B-series motors.  Use it when swapping cams, or having stock cams reground to new specs.  Now you know what you're dealing with!

Motor & year      Inlet lift, opens, closes   exhaust lift, open,  close
                       (mm)    (BTDC) (ATDC)       (mm)     (BBDC) (ATDC)

B202t  -1985      8.65/6.65**   16     56          8.65      56     10
B202t cat -86     8.65/6.65**   16     56          8.65      56     10

B202t  1986-          8.65      16     56          8,65      61     13
B202t cat 87-         8.65      16     56          8,65      61     13

B202i  1986-          8.65      16     44          8,65      61     13
B212i  1991-          8.65      16     44          8,65      61     13

B234i  90-93          8.65      13     53          8.65      50     16
B234t  91-93          8.65      13     53          8.65      50     16

B204all 94-           8.65      14     46          8.65      44     16
B234t   94-           8.65      14     46          8.65      44     16

B234i   94-           8.65      13     53          8.65      48     18

** - the difference in the height of the two lobes is for swirl in
the combustion chamber

BTDC - Before Top Dead Center
ATDC - After   "    "    "
BBDC - Before Bottom Dead Center

B202i:

B = Gasoline (Bransle in Swedish)
20 = displacement in deciliters 20=2l, 21 = 2.1l, etc.
2 = # of cam (or other) shafts 2 = slant block, 4 = balance shaft block
i = injection, t=turbo, all=all variants (i thru t)

cat = means with catalyst