fantastixvoyage

Just put the first 30 miles on my new ride. Interesting to say the least...previous owner thought .600 lunati cam, no muffler and borla tips was a good idea. Its just obnoxious.

Anyways, anyone running a .600" (or larger) cam in their daily driver??? I have high hopes a good tune will bring this car back but right now its loading up and not even all that fun to drive. No clue what tune is in there but whatever it is isn't even close. I'm used to old muscle cars so a .600" cam would be for strip or at least weekends only. This car will see almost daily use. Just curious if a cam swap (smaller) should be in my future...

Dragkid1917

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itll use alot of gas, but I daily drove my cam with a .598/.603 lift. Its not ideal but, definatly not impossible

95FbFormula

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Its the tune there are plenty of people with .600+ lift cams dd them

D-Webz

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mine is .595/.608 I dd it and get fairly good MPH city and still get 28+ highway. It is the tune that determines how drivable the cam is going to be for the most part.

jmdale1984

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I've been running a .641" I/.644" E lift cam as a daily driver for 14k miles on PP Golds... zero issues so far.

Ericbigmac83

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.600 isnt a big deal anymore these days. thats not the part thats going to make it bearable or unbearable

WheelmanWS6

I myself am near the .600 lift but not over it.

Car rank like hell after cam and head install, wouldnt stay running, died, sputtered, surged at low RPMs....

After a base tune, car felt 100% better, idled fine, drove well with good power....


After the dyno tune, CAR FELT 100000000% better, responsive as all hell, idle was perfect, regular driving was fine, no surging, WOT was insane.


A lot of driveability, especially for us M6 drivers, is in the tune. Invest in that and you won't be dissappointed.

fantastixvoyage

Good to hear. I feel like an old man talking about trying to tone down a car but I really want to get alot of use out of this car. I have the DFI sitting on the shelf ready to go in at some point, glad to hear all should be fine with a tune. I'm working on a temporary solution to get a little better tune in the mean time.

Car does at least fire up and stay idling. Runs ok at part throttle, the second I take my foot off the gas I can feel and hear it break apart, same with downshifting. Anxious to get a muffler on there and maybe dump the borla tips so I can get a better feel for what is going on.

3rdgentug

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cam in sig .595/.605 lift numbers , has @ 4000 miles so far with a good tune and no issues. i love it, should have gone bigger

ShevrolayZ28

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Max lift has very little to do with driveablity issues. It's duration you should concern yourselves with.

5_02ls1

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yeah theres alot more to a cam than lift....ALOT what is the duration and lsa???

davered00ss

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Duration has more to do with driveability than the lift. Tune has everything to do with it as well. Go to a smaller cam if you don't like it.

MrElectric03

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Do you know the duration? As long as the springs were upgraded to handle the lift it should be fine. My cam I am installing has .609" intake and .604" exhaust. A tune should really help with the drivability, and if its too loud some magnaflows will quiet it down and still have a good note to the exhaust.

1Bad00SS

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lift is a very small part of what makes a cam driveable to my understanding. I can't stand mine. Thank God I don't have to daily drive it.

68chevypu

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.600I/.610E here, not a single problem and I drive mine every day to work and back in 100+ degree heat and never have a problem. Needs alittle tweaking with the AC on but otherwise its fine

Redlinez

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232/234 648/612 112 here. I will say, it has an irritating cam surge from 1400-1800 or so at low speeds and we've tried to tune it out several times. The car hates to coast in 6th gear from anything less than 65 or it's buck city.

burnstacp

mods in sig and it drives awesome! My car is a DD and i can cruise at 1k rpms and no bucking or surging

'02 WS6

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ummmm....no. .595/.598 so close enough here but I get 27-28 on the highway, avg. 20mpg, that said my car drives almost identical to stock, no bucking surging or any differences...until you hit 3200rpms full throttle!! Numerous people I know have MS3's .600+ and they ALL get 25+ one gets 29 hwy mpg, so don't let lift numbers alter your judgement. It's all in the tune!!

NVR_SPDS

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My girls car is Daily driven, and its close to .600. Its a .595/.598, and it does pretty damn good with the tune from Synergy.

Sharpe

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What the hell does lift have to do with street manners?