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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 05:40 PM
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good afternoon everyone, buddy of mine has a cam he got for his car and he decided he wanted to go a different route with the engine now im thinking about buying it off him and want to make sure the cam will be good for the cars setup.

i have a 2002 z28 camaro a4 has 70300 miles on it.
cam specs:
duration is 224 intake 224 exhaust
valve lift is 581 intake 581 exhaust
lsa is 111

this would be installed this winter along with sending the heads out to get p/p
tsp lt/ory
ss3600 stall
p/p tb
and 3:73 gears

just wanting to make sure this combo will be good
any and all help will be appreciated thanks
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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 05:54 PM
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What is the ICL? Whatever it is I would install it on 111 LSA and 111 ICL. 2* overlap so decent chopchop with 800>850 idle.
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ICL is 110
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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 06:09 PM
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110 ICL is not bad, good grind that will give you 42 IVC which is about perfect for street. Make sure you degree it at that ICL. Power range will be around 2000rpm to 6600rpm
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ok thanks, anything else you think i should change at all or add. Trying to build a reliable driver yet has plenty of power to go faster. haha
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Do your diff gears last, you might like the 323s you have.
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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 07:31 PM
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i have 273 gears in it now thats the reason i was going to do it
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Still my advice is to drive it with stock gears for awhile and make a decision afterwards. You'll find much better highway mileage and top speed with 273s.
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ok ill try that out thank you very much
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