I own a 2001 Sentra SE. I recently put stillen cam gears in. I am only able to adjust them 5 degress advanced and 5 degrees back. does anyone with them know a correct setting. this is weird but to me having them retarted 1 degree makes the car feel more stronger and have a lot more power. I was jsut woundering if anyone can help me out. i would go to a dyno but i dont have to money. It is a twin cam.

Have you searched www.se-r.net ?
I think they did a write up on cam gears.

Dont get lost in there!!

I have been there before and it doesn't really give me the info i need. i need somebody with stillen cams to help me out

You may have to just buy some dyno time and go at it yourself.

Mike Kojima wrote a great article about camshafts in the Suck, Squish, Bang, Blow series in SCC. The article in question is right after the super SR20 cam test in the June 2000 issue. He has a explanation of adjustable cam gears as part of that article. I don't have the time to type it all out here (and there is a lot of great info, if you can find it somewhere, read it), but he gave guidelines on what basic adjustments of the gears would do for your powerband, the gist of which was:

Advance Intake & Exhaust: increases bottom end, reduces top-end

Retard Intake & Exhaust: increases top-end, decreases bottom-end

Advance Intake Only: Helps bottom & midrange, works on stock heads

Retard Intake Only: Helps top-end at expense of low, not good for street cars

Advance Exhaust Only: Helps top-end at the expense of low-mid, not good for street

Retard Exhaust Only: Helps bottom/midrange, works on stock heads

But he says that these are just basic guidelines and you need to dyno tune to get the most out of cam gears. He also says you can only adjust about 6 degrees on a stock engined car before you have to worry about contact - so 5 degrees sounds like a good range of adjustment.

Josh