radical 5.3 cam?
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radical 5.3 cam? looking for options on cam selections on my 5.3 turbo build. wanting something in the 2000-6500rpm, maybe 7000 on the high side of limit. i want that big block shake the fender off idle, it' be in a s10 maybe 3000lbs max. street driven.
open to any suggestions, or "this is the one i have"
.030 over to clean it up.
balanced.
90mm holley high ram.
72mm turbo.
3500stall.
4:10 rear gears. w pac springs, or equal
706 head/ compression 9:5'ish,[basicly stock]
open to any suggestions, or "this is the one i have"
.030 over to clean it up.
balanced.
90mm holley high ram.
72mm turbo.
3500stall.
4:10 rear gears. w pac springs, or equal
706 head/ compression 9:5'ish,[basicly stock]
The cam will depend on your lifters. above 6500 with a turbo also will need no only high quality lifters but a high volume oil pump.
Anyway on to the cam. i would recommend something in the 233/242 area on a 114...might be pretty tight if youve milled the heads youd want to double check unless you have forged pistons with valve reliefs. Does have some overlap. there are alot of cams in that range on youtube...search to your hearts content. We either have a cam in the area or can spec you one close! The end result is also all in the tuning/timing and the exhaust.
Cam kits run 689 with dual springs
Anyway on to the cam. i would recommend something in the 233/242 area on a 114...might be pretty tight if youve milled the heads youd want to double check unless you have forged pistons with valve reliefs. Does have some overlap. there are alot of cams in that range on youtube...search to your hearts content. We either have a cam in the area or can spec you one close! The end result is also all in the tuning/timing and the exhaust.
Cam kits run 689 with dual springs
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The cam will depend on your lifters. above 6500 with a turbo also will need no only high quality lifters but a high volume oil pump.
Anyway on to the cam. i would recommend something in the 233/242 area on a 114...might be pretty tight if youve milled the heads youd want to double check unless you have forged pistons with valve reliefs. Does have some overlap. there are alot of cams in that range on youtube...search to your hearts content. We either have a cam in the area or can spec you one close! The end result is also all in the tuning/timing and the exhaust.
Anyway on to the cam. i would recommend something in the 233/242 area on a 114...might be pretty tight if youve milled the heads youd want to double check unless you have forged pistons with valve reliefs. Does have some overlap. there are alot of cams in that range on youtube...search to your hearts content. We either have a cam in the area or can spec you one close! The end result is also all in the tuning/timing and the exhaust.
it will have a hi volume pump.
heads not milled, but am going up on valve size. the pistons are dished hyperthuetics. step up from stock.
I would recommend a step up to the morel 5315 honestly. not alot more money but higher quality internals and still drop in. Then a melling 10296 oil pump (high volume). The cam we recommended will sound pretty amazing. There are alot of sound clips of similar cams (like the ms3) oit there...keep in mind that the ls1s larger displacement will tame the cam and the sound somewhat also. I would stay away from the ms3 cam and similar as the lobes cam be quite aggressive...if TSPs new cams do in fact use the same lobe ramp rates. The xer style lobes can be hard on springs.
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You can dial in quite a bit of exhaust duration and have a solid LSA and still make it sound good and have the turbo power. But if you want it slobbering all over the place, NA is nearly the only way to do it.
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I like this cam. Ljms stage 3 turbo. Sounds good at idle and makes good power Lil john / BTR stage 3 turbo cam 5.3l Ls first startup - YouTube