Need Cam Advice... Please help me out...
08-14-2009, 09:16 PM
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Need Cam Advice... Please help me out... I want go with a new cam... My question is.. I dont want anything considered extreme, I will be DD the car... I do want a nice cam lope though... Its a 6 speed.. My car is mostly stock.. Has a lid & bellows.. Some free mods and a cut out... Iam pretty sure i could get larger gains from just cam then a longtube install... Which is why i wanna do this first... Anyways looking for a mild cam that i can DD I will also be willing to change the valve springs as well if the size of the cam needs... Thanks! If anyone has one for sale.. Also let me know!
08-14-2009, 09:43 PM
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My car is basically what you are talking about (mods and cam in sig). Sometimes it idles low for a few seconds at startup but then settles down. Otherwise it's fairly tame but you know it's cammed. The air conditioner adds just enough load to make it lope a little more. I don't DD mine but easily could and make almost as much power as the big cam cars. I will say that lower gears really help a cammed car in that it helps with bogging off the line.
08-14-2009, 09:50 PM
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Well... I guess maybe i could do some Ebay headers... i dunno.. Even though you wouldnt see the full potential.. Wouldnt you still have bigger gains going with the cam first?
08-14-2009, 10:15 PM
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you would probably see bigger gains by installing the cam first, a tune would be recommended. but you won't notice the full potential of the cam until you let that LS1 breath with a set of LTs
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08-15-2009, 01:56 PM
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Jus do them at the same time, Pacesetters are cheap and work great.
I have the thunder racing trex cam in my car with stock heads and I daily drive it everyday rain or shine and its been great. Sometimes with AC on it will lope to much for my liking, I put down 423rwhp. When it comes to drivability its all in the tune man, I like driving the big cam more then I liked driving the stock one.
I have the thunder racing trex cam in my car with stock heads and I daily drive it everyday rain or shine and its been great. Sometimes with AC on it will lope to much for my liking, I put down 423rwhp. When it comes to drivability its all in the tune man, I like driving the big cam more then I liked driving the stock one.