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Old Sep 13, 2009 | 06:33 PM
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Well i am going a diffrent route with my car.I am going full on sleeper mode.The cam i need needs to have the following.....great for nitrous,good DD manners,make great power mid to high,have a high LSA 116 or more,and cant be over over 600 lift for the fact that my 5.3 truck heads are decked .30.If anyone can help me i sure would apreciate it.
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Old Sep 13, 2009 | 07:17 PM
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You should look into the TR cheater cam. Its a 214/230 .601/.575 on a 117 LSA.
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Old Sep 13, 2009 | 07:49 PM
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You should look into the TR cheater cam. Its a 214/230 .601/.575 on a 117 LSA.
Iv heard alot of bad things about those cams.As in they dont make alot of power.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 6th gear
Iv heard alot of bad things about those cams.As in they dont make alot of power.
the dyno numbers look pretty good on TR website with the AFR heads
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 02:49 AM
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Originally Posted by 6th gear
and cant be over over 600 lift for the fact that my 5.3 truck heads are decked .30.
High lift isn't the contributing factor for PTV contact.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 04:07 AM
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or you could call up a sponsor and get a cam spec'd for you by someone who actually knows wtf they are talking about...

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or you could call up a sponsor and get a cam spec'd for you by someone who actually knows wtf they are talking about...

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This or give PREDATOR-Z or Patrick G a pm.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by 6th gear
Iv heard alot of bad things about those cams.As in they dont make alot of power.
Not true. The CheaTR cams make good power and they are closest shelf cam to what you need. Otherwise, you need to go custom. And lift does not make P to V tight. Duration does. Too much duration (especially on the intake side) will risk piston to valve contact during the overlap cycle. The cam is at max lift when the piston is almost all the way down the cylinder so lift has very little affect on P to V.
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The exhaust system will also play a lot into how much camshaft you can hide in the car. I have a 220/220 .581/.581 on a 115+4 new in the box in our camshaft blowout thread. You can get that dude for $300. I ran that camshaft in my wife's stock 35th SS & it drove perfect with a stock verter & a extra 50rpm at idle!!!

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