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Old 01-10-2003, 01:34 PM
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I'm working on it. Can someone out there host it for me?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by LOnSLO:
<strong> F1 - 230/226 .591/.569 112 +2 </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">sounds almost identical to the X1 from mti

230/227 591/571 112

what kind of springs were required?

you results are awesome! I'm installing an X1 on a stock head LS6 in about a week. Looking forward to it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
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I stuck with the 918's, although I'd feel a little safer with double springs. I believe MTI uses the double springs on their X1 installs. Please post up some numbers for your X1, as I'm dying to know what it would do with stock LS6 heads.
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Do you have any videos at idle??? Maybe one with this cam compared to the other???
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you got that much rear wheel with stock heads??? No work on them?? did you spray or anything?? what all mods??? I am curious cause i got my ls6 intake and want to get a cam similar, i am bery interested in what kind of power i would put down.
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No headwork, stock driveshaft, steel flywheel, stock rear, and plenty of witnesses. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> Meet me up at Scott's shop when I come up, and you can check it out firsthand <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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haha yea i can take witness to what his car did, it sounds good and can catch idle quickly after start up.
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Those are awsome numbers! <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> This is making me re-think getting the TR224 which after about 2 months of digging through cam post I decided I wantted to get. <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> I was wantting to know if you were still on stock tunning , well beside the 6800 rev limiter have you changed anything else? would you recomend this cam for a daily driver?
thanks , justin
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i got my dyno tuned numbers finally. they were 360 rwhp, 438 rwtq. the highest i saw was 363rwhp, 465 rwtq. but it was still a bit lean. ill post the graph in another thread after i get it up.

p.s. this is through an un-locked verter. after i get rid of the POS yank, ill have locked numbers.
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Rob - Those torque numbers are insane <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" /> Keep us updated.
98 Tran - I am still on my 224 tuning. It runs pretty good now, but maybe a couple more could be had with an update. As far as a daily driver cam, I would say with 3.73's or 4.10's it would be great. I get a good bit of surging at very low rpms while cruising, but I'm still on 3.42s.
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disregard the torque numbers. they are converter spikes. ive been recently updated on how to dyno a car with a stall converter and ill have new numbers next week.
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so your car idles better with a bigger cam? i have a comp 224 cam and dont like the way it drives at low rpms- it likes to die out a bit. maybe bigger cam when i do the heads?
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Mine hasn't died out yet, and I have been testing it. It does not like to cruise in 6th at 1300 rpms though. Just a hair more surging than the TR224 at low speeds.
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LOnSlo, i responded to your PM. I wanted to say that your current cam choice should compliment your LS6 heads nicely. I would have chosen same specs for your combination. Do you have LS1 edit tuning? It is the answer to any and all mods especially larger cams, nice power for stock heads, how about track times? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
P.S. I just ran 918 springs to 6800 with no issues several times, granted my custom grind cam is not as lobe intense as XE and XER lobes but my lift is .585" with about 224*@.050" and 276 on seat.
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Thanks for replying Jeff, sent you mail. The tracks over here don't open until the 25th, so we'll see what, if any, gains can come out of it.
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let me know what day you are coming up as soon as possible so i can get off work.
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Still waitin' for that graph. <img border="0" alt="[angel]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_angel.gif" />
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I was there when LOnSLO, Ryan dyno'ed his car. I know he said he was disapointed a little with his #'s but it looked pretty sweet to me!! Course I was there with my stock 02 and when your at 327 & 334, 400 plus looks damn good! <img border="0" alt="[worship]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_hail.gif" /> Ryan.
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Finally got to take her down to the track. Conditions were practically the same as my best TR224 run. New best run vs old best run:
F1 TR224
2.02 60' 1.95 60'
7.88 1/8mi ?1/8mi
12.02 1/4mi 12.19 1/4mi
119.88mph 116.6mph

So, there wasn't the 11's that I had hoped for. Couldn't get the Nittos to hook for ****, especially after the rice fest moved in. Car got slower as the day got longer, but managed to pull off several runs in the 12.0X area. Basically, with just the cam swap only, I gained over 3 mph, and close to 2 tenths. I'm sold <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
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Awesome results, glad you are happy with the swap.


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