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Old 12-23-2011, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Patrick G
Best advice in the thread. Since you already have 243 heads, you only needed a 219-223 LSL intake lobe to get to 400rwhp. But since you went big with a 230 intake lobe, you'll be way over 400rwhp, but alas, without the sweet, stock-like street manners. With a good tune the drivabilty of your 230/238 cam will be acceptable. It's just a bigger cam than I would have recommended.
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I ran across this link lastnight. Hope this helps, its pretty informative.
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...t/viewall.html
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Originally Posted by Patrick G
Best advice in the thread. Since you already have 243 heads, you only needed a 219-223 LSL intake lobe to get to 400rwhp. But since you went big with a 230 intake lobe, you'll be way over 400rwhp, but alas, without the sweet, stock-like street manners. With a good tune the drivabilty of your 230/238 cam will be acceptable. It's just a bigger cam than I would have recommended.
I understand what you're saying. Geoff recommended something like a 226/230 for a "daily driveable" setup. This is not going to be a car that is daily driven, so I decided to give up a little bit of driveability for a little more power. I think it's fitting for my application.
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I think you made a great choice. A 230/238 isn't small by any means, but it's not some big *** donkey dick cam that's going to cause your car to fall all over itself in the lower RPM's. Plus, it will have a nice lope to it.



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