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Old Sep 10, 2011 | 07:54 PM
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What's the largest duration / lift cam that will work with Stock bottom end and heads?
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Old Sep 10, 2011 | 08:13 PM
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Omg....
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Omg....
I was thinking the same thing lol
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Old Sep 11, 2011 | 08:21 AM
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2 of the biggest i can think off (non custom)
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1bad98ls1 why would you want a huge cam with stock heads and bottom end? do you have any mods already?
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You dont want a huge cam on stock bottom end, people always come in here and ask the same question and always manage to get talked into a smaller cam your going to have to rev the **** out of that to take advantage of the power band someone will chime in and give you the scoop or just use the "SEARCH"
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I have the polluter cam with stock bottom end and it does suprisingly well for a big cam just my .02
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1bad98ls1 why would you want a huge cam with stock heads and bottom end? do you have any mods already?
Its a general question as i may decide to put a cam in an ls engine but its a custom grind so I needed some general numbers to go off of. And YES of coarse I have mods, can't run 11.0 with an all factory f-body that I know of LOL
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