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Old Aug 7, 2010 | 08:55 PM
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my car was recently wrecked, im going to be needing to replace the whole front end motor is still fine, i was thinking since i have to do that nows the time to put in a cam if im ever going to. the thing is its a daily driver everyone is diffrent on what they think is a good daily driver cam but all in all id like to eventually have a low to mid 11 second daily driver. can someone give me some opinions on a good cam
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You want an 11 second daily driver.....go nitrous. All the great things about being stock, but moves when you want. You go NA low 11s and you are going to have to make sacrifices. Gas mileage being one of the bigger ones.
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I vote for the ls6 cam if you want stock reliability but with a performance boost but remember your gonna have to replace the valve springs too.

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Daily driver can mean alot of different things. What kind of gas milage are you prepared to put up with. Are you sitting in stop and go traffic. Are you going to change your rear gears. If you want to go 11's you are going to be modifying your car alot more then just a cam.
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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by 1998_trans_am_ls1
my car was recently wrecked, im going to be needing to replace the whole front end motor is still fine, i was thinking since i have to do that nows the time to put in a cam if im ever going to. the thing is its a daily driver everyone is diffrent on what they think is a good daily driver cam but all in all id like to eventually have a low to mid 11 second daily driver. can someone give me some opinions on a good cam
I might have missed it in your sig but I don't see a stall. That is really going to limit your cam choices.
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yeah, im not to worried about gas mileage im will to get it down to whatever well reasonable 15 or so.and im not in much stop go traffic at all. iplanned on keeping the 3.73s. and right now i dont have a stall, but eventually i will be getting one.
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