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Old Apr 11, 2013 | 09:28 PM
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I'm here in California and smog is ridiculous. I heard about the cheater cam. I got an 01 trans am ws6 will this be good for me?
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Old Apr 12, 2013 | 03:37 PM
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I've heard of the TSP 224r passing just fine also, its probably what im going with, but the cheatr would work fine.
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Old Apr 13, 2013 | 10:03 AM
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I'm still trying to get good power out of it. I know a good tune will help me pass but after I get smog I'll just tune it back up
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Old Apr 13, 2013 | 12:14 PM
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There was a guy local to me that had a 224r and heads that made 450 rwhp and still passed cali smog
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 11:16 AM
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With longtubes I would probably never pass do you think?
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I'm probably about to be selling a 224r with a 112 lsa if you ain't already got something lined up and choose to go that route, I don't know about California smog but it does drive mostly like stock
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 05:06 PM
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How much you trying to get for it?
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 05:46 PM
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I highly doubt ever passing with longtubes
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 10:30 PM
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Yeah thats what I thought. I'll just wait till I register it in Tennessee
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 11:45 PM
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Prolly somewhere around $250 unknown miles on it but its my car doing what it's supposed to be doing shoot me a pm if your interested and that may give me the gumption to start pulling it apart so I can actually complete my little short term build
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Old Apr 15, 2013 | 09:22 AM
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Ok thats not bad I sent you a pm.
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Old Apr 16, 2013 | 11:54 PM
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I don't think I ever got it, my new one is on the way now so I could pull it soon and have an excuse to put my ls6 intake on as well
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You really don't want a single pattern cam like a 224/224 114lsa(-4* OL), you need a wide split like the Tick performance 218/230 117lsa(-10*OL) cam to use with the more restrictive manifolds and cats.
FYI, the 224/224 112lsa cam is to big (0* overlap), You need at least -4* overlap overlap; preferably more. Id also consider having the factory heads milled and ported or buy some SMOG legal performance heads like the AFR210s. With high flow heads you can go with less split like a 218/226, then you also can go with a narrower lsa like a 115 but still have -8* overlap.
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