Looking into the Streetsweeper and the Hellion cam from New Era
Looking into the Streetsweeper and the Hellion cam from New Era I am looking into the streetsweeper cam and also the Hellion Cam. I will have headers an a bbk intake or Fast intake when I do the cam. Let me know what you guys think of this cam. I have not heard the Hellion in too many LS1's, If you have any vids, can you post them. I have New Era performance about an hour away so I will be going there.
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
I am looking into the streetsweeper cam and also the Hellion Cam. I will have headers an a bbk intake or Fast intake when I do the cam. Let me know what you guys think of this cam. I have not heard the Hellion in too many LS1's, If you have any vids, can you post them. I have New Era performance about an hour away so I will be going there.
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
New Era is great, good choice. My personal thoughts is that cam only the hellion is too large, especially for a driver. You will care about driveability when u get a large cam in a stick car without 4.10 or higher gears regardless of how good the tune is. That 228/232 111 should lope plenty hard to sound good, and still maintain decent driveability. The original streetsweeper is larger then you have listed and is as big as i would go, but i still wouldn't even consider that cam in a car without proper gearing, and supporting mods.
There is also a smaller version, 220/224 on a 112 if I remember correctly. Contact Ed at FTI, he can guide you as he designed them. Then just buy from New Era. I have dealt with New Era in the past, they have treated me very well when I ran into problems (months after the purchase). That is a major thing in my book, i.e., they took care of their customer.
Thaks guys, so basically either of the street sweeper cams should lope pretty good? Do I need different gears with this cam? I was going to try to hold off on the rear stuff until I blow it, that way I can put all my money into a 12 bolt.
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Go to the dyno section and watch the clips of drivability, idle and wot. Please keep in mind my car is a 402 though, not a 346.
Mike or Ron at Vengeance could explain the function of my cam in a 346 on the technical side better then I can. MIKE OR RON want to chime in?
https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...s-results.html
Mike or Ron at Vengeance could explain the function of my cam in a 346 on the technical side better then I can. MIKE OR RON want to chime in?
https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...s-results.html
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Verdad Gallardo I think the two under consideration are too large as well. I would consider something smaller like the Streetsweeper I mentioned in my first post. We got just shy of 400 hp with that cam and my friend who owns the car has it on a trip right now and called me to inform me that he is getting 35 mpg with it as well. Best of both worlds.
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I am looking into the streetsweeper cam and also the Hellion Cam. I will have headers an a bbk intake or Fast intake when I do the cam. Let me know what you guys think of this cam. I have not heard the Hellion in too many LS1's, If you have any vids, can you post them. I have New Era performance about an hour away so I will be going there.
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
My goals are:
- over 400 rwhp, closer to 450rwhp
- Ok street manners, I want a big lope, I dont really care too much about driveability, I have always wanted something that sounds badaxx.
- dont want to replace springs every year or ever
- dont want to do heads, just the cam.
Hellion: 244/248 .630/.630 cam and is on a 112 LSA
Street sweeper Specs
Int Exh
Duration @ .050 228 232
Lift .612 .600
LSA : 111
If you don't get there, don't blame it on the cam.
Jon
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Both of those cams work very well on LS1's. Believe it or not we always see more horsepower with the Streetsweeper than the Hellion on stock shortblocks, and something else to to note is that even though the hellion is bigger, it is actually easier to tune, cam specs on a cam card don't always show everything that creates horsepower and how it is going to be tuning. We just wrapped up a cam only install on a 02 vette this week with the streetsweeper with an LS6 intake cam-only on the stock heads that made 431 rwhp on our dyno. This cam always makes killer power in everything we put it in.
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Often there is a tad bit of difference beween those heads powerwise. OP has stock LS1 heads, right?
Perhaps your 346/stock LS! heads experience differs. Do you have your 346/LS1 heads dyno charts available?
Please post 'em for us.
Jon
Both of those cams work very well on LS1's. Believe it or not we always see more horsepower with the Streetsweeper than the Hellion on stock shortblocks, and something else to to note is that even though the hellion is bigger, it is actually easier to tune, cam specs on a cam card don't always show everything that creates horsepower and how it is going to be tuning. We just wrapped up a cam only install on a 02 vette this week with the streetsweeper with an LS6 intake cam-only on the stock heads that made 431 rwhp on our dyno. This cam always makes killer power in everything we put it in.
I'm really happy with streetsweeper cam too.
