I know its stupid but when I was at the track I set my rev limited to 7500 and ran down the track shifting at 7300, I ONLY did this cause I wanted to see if not shifting into 4th would help, I did 2 runs and it did not help. now its set to 6700 and I shift at 6600 which is the sweet spot/where my power starts to drop. BTW my car is a 2000 vette, mods below.

 

that shows how well designed the LS engines are. im glad im not a ford guy

 

I'm confused. Your mods in your sig say you already have a cam?

 

2000 Camaro + 116,000 miles + HPTuners datalog =

 

Maybe we could get a shift rpm poll for all stock short blocks. It would help all of us.

 

yeah we should do it. someone start it.

 

6500+ here for over a year with countless passes street and track an hangin in there....bounced my 68000 rev limiter a couple times but stripped loctite on rockers but no big deal... Still don't understand why.......

 

yeah im not scared anymore. lol i rev mine high alot.

 

I take mine to 7000 at the track. It's a 2000 w/ about 68,000 miles

 

i have a bigger cam to install.

 

wow! the highest ive been shifting is 5700 on my stock 98

 

Don't rev a 98 high mileage motor high!!! I got a rod in my T/A spinning it up to 7K during the tuning session. Started pecking and I knew right then I had stretched a rod bolt!!! Now I have a 04 floating pin LQ4 bottom with ARP bolts!

 

so do the 2000's have the stronger rod bolts or no? and what would be the best rpm to shift at for me with the cam in my sig? my car has 120k on it...

 

^^ set rev limit to 6800-6900 I wouldn't chance it. I have spun my bone stock longblock 2000 Z28 to 6500 but I can tell you it didn't like it valvetrain wise...LOL I only reved it that high in 4th gear though due to running out of gear on the N2O at the track.

 

mines not really high milaage i only have 108k on my 98... so i figure 6100 or 6200 wouldnt hurt with 3.42s so my RPMS wont drop as much..

 

61-62 isn't bad at all on any ls engine. Stock is 6200. I revved mine too high while tuning and mine didn't like it but others havent had issues. After it happens to you, you will re-think how you rev your car because it's easier to drop the rev limit a couple hundred RPM and save your motor than it is to have to pull it and do a full rebuild from a stretched rod bolt!!!

 

could be a problem shifting that low while racing though... thanks for the input.

 

i spun my stock bottom end in my 02 to 7300 with an ms4 and scattered it......

 

i have my rev set a 6800 but i just recently got a dynotune and you can see on the sheet that about 6300 my hp actully starts to drop off.

 

yeah mine doesnt make much past 6400 but my rev is at 6600. it deff pulls longer and harder than the stock rev at 6200. it seems to spin forever. lol i love it.