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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 09:53 PM
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what lsa...also sounds like the idle is pretty high...what is it at...

well it is only half tuned so idle is right around 1050, there is still a couple of hours of tuning, from what ive heard and read these cams normally idle around 900, ill just have to wait and see what the final rpm idle will be. its a speed density tune as well.
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 09:59 PM
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sounds like a damn farm truck!!!
J/K!!!!!
cant wait to see the end result
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:01 PM
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sounds like a damn farm truck!!!
J/K!!!!!

**** you ed!!!!! lol dont get mad cause your jealous of rosie.
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by chrs1313
what lsa...also sounds like the idle is pretty high...what is it at...
its a 110 lsa.
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sounds like a damn farm truck!!!
J/K!!!!!
cant wait to see the end result
your gonna have to pull that camaro out or that shitstaing!
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your gonna have to pull that camaro out or that shitstaing!
hell i can push that mustang faster than Rosie will ever run!
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:17 PM
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hell i can push that mustang faster than Rosie will ever run!
with nitrous maybe!
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:20 PM
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i will have to say though i am anxious to see the ole bitch run.
thinking the cam may be too big (t-rex) for what i am wanting to do with the LS swap in my Camaro.
but we will have to see.
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:23 PM
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[QUOTE=mred;13033241]i will have to say though i am anxious to see the ole bitch run.
thinking the cam may be too big (t-rex) for what i am wanting to do with the LS swap in my Camaro.
but we will have to see.[/Q


if your gonna run the bottle i think you would need a smaller cam?
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na,i just want something that runs real good and sounds good as well.
something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpU-CC5OOM0
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what cam is that? sounds pretty good.

check out the tr raptr, its a little smaller but sounds good.
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some cam that chrs1313 is running that PredatorZ suggested.
230-230
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Just a fiy. i have/had a trex cam in my 02 and it sounds great/ ran great. 400rwhp. but it is hard on ****. real hard. the cam has been in the car less that 6000 miles. and never raced (car only has 10000 miles on it.) i had the car start back fireing though the intake. figure a spring broke but i figured wrong. the dam bottom of the lifter broke in pieces. just tore it appart today and found the problem. **** suck. well ur car sounds great and hope u have better luck than me. and ya i had my car tuned by bluecat and it idle at 900 rmp. like i said good luck.
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Just a fiy. i have/had a trex cam in my 02 and it sounds great/ ran great. 400rwhp. but it is hard on ****. real hard. the cam has been in the car less that 6000 miles. and never raced (car only has 10000 miles on it.) i had the car start back fireing though the intake. figure a spring broke but i figured wrong. the dam bottom of the lifter broke in pieces. just tore it appart today and found the problem. **** suck. well ur car sounds great and hope u have better luck than me. and ya i had my car tuned by bluecat and it idle at 900 rmp. like i said good luck.
man that sucks, hope you get it fixed, you gonna remove the cam? i hope i have good luck too. thanks. you daily drive it? you drive it hard when you do? looks like it messed up your cam too, huh?
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man that sucks, hope you get it fixed, you gonna remove the cam? i hope i have good luck too. thanks. you daily drive it? you drive it hard when you do? looks like it messed up your cam too, huh?
ya i am going to get it fixed this week. haven dicieded if i am going back to the trex or not. yes it did **** up the cam. which sucks. the car only ran maybe 20 sec after it started back firing. and i shut it down and trailored it home. the car wasnt running over 3000rpm when it happen either. thats one reason i am on here is to find a different cam maybe and just get ideas. but who knows. i may go back to the same thing. ya i drove the car at least 100 miles a day. but mostly highway driving. well i did drive the car hard kinda but no harder than i drove a stock lt1 car and it handled the abuse for 5 years before it spun 1 and 2 bears at the race track. but i didnt bet the ls1 either. did maybe 2 burnouts.
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ya i am going to get it fixed this week. haven dicieded if i am going back to the trex or not. yes it did **** up the cam. which sucks. the car only ran maybe 20 sec after it started back firing. and i shut it down and trailored it home. the car wasnt running over 3000rpm when it happen either. thats one reason i am on here is to find a different cam maybe and just get ideas. but who knows. i may go back to the same thing. ya i drove the car at least 100 miles a day. but mostly highway driving. well i did drive the car hard kinda but no harder than i drove a stock lt1 car and it handled the abuse for 5 years before it spun 1 and 2 bears at the race track. but i didnt bet the ls1 either. did maybe 2 burnouts.
Well I hope everything works out for you, there is alot of good cams out there, the trex is considered radical as some would put it but like always **** happens sometimes. Good luck and thanks for the info.
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I have this cam in my daily driver and love it! making 443/405 torque on stock heads
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Well so far I haven't had any problems with the T Rex. I've put about 3,000 miles on the car since i bought it, and i go wot all the time, pounding thru the gears. I know my buddy, the previous owner, put way many more miles on it with that cam too.

If anything, my rear end doesn't like it, cuz it's whining all the time LOL
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I have this cam in my daily driver and love it! making 443/405 torque on stock heads
Those are badass numbers, through an m6?
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Originally Posted by Nemesis350
Well so far I haven't had any problems with the T Rex. I've put about 3,000 miles on the car since i bought it, and i go wot all the time, pounding thru the gears. I know my buddy, the previous owner, put way many more miles on it with that cam too.

If anything, my rear end doesn't like it, cuz it's whining all the time LOL
Lol, is it through the 10 bolt?
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