Cam for 5400lb truck
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Looking to tear into a 5.3 in a truck that weights more than a couple tons. Just looking to add some character to it, wake it up. While retaining the ability to haul around our real muscle cars. It will be accompanied by stock 799s heads, longtubes and full exhaust with a stall converter. The usual basics. Any recommendations on a cam? I need as much torque as possible from around idle on up. Dont care what it revs too. Dont care how it sounds.
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Check out the drop in truck cams. They are built for what you're looking for and retain stock pushrods and valve springs.
If you're handy pull the heads (unless you mean they'll already be off) and mill them a little too for a little more low end, efficiency, torque, power etc and to get back some of the dynamic compression you'll lose with the cam.
If you're handy pull the heads (unless you mean they'll already be off) and mill them a little too for a little more low end, efficiency, torque, power etc and to get back some of the dynamic compression you'll lose with the cam.
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I would go a bit stouter than LS6 springs, like a PAC 1218 (I THINK that's it..) . Call it life insurance for your valvetrain...
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The entire valvetrain minus rockers will be changed. I will run high lift springs, probably duals. As for the converter it will be a circle D budget truck converter.
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I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that LS6 springs were only good for .550 or slightly above, but not approaching .600.
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The LS6 cam itself is 0.551" / 0.547" int/exh lift. There is some headroom there, but as it is .55X" of lift is plenty given proper duration. The reported cases I've seen were all for lift above .6XX". For the intended purpose of this truck cam, there is no need for lift above .6XX".
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Looking to tear into a 5.3 in a truck that weights more than a couple tons. Just looking to add some character to it, wake it up. While retaining the ability to haul around our real muscle cars. It will be accompanied by stock 799s heads, longtubes and full exhaust with a stall converter. The usual basics. Any recommendations on a cam? I need as much torque as possible from around idle on up. Dont care what it revs too. Dont care how it sounds.
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The LS6 cam itself is 0.551" / 0.547" int/exh lift. There is some headroom there, but as it is .55X" of lift is plenty given proper duration. The reported cases I've seen were all for lift above .6XX". For the intended purpose of this truck cam, there is no need for lift above .6XX".
I never considered rockers only, have you seen any literature with results from rockers only I could read on? Or know someone that's tried it? Curious how they liked it, especially if they did it on a truck.
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One other thing I forgot to mention was that LS6 springs were a bit "soft" for the application, with the result that some knowledgeable people don't even like them much in their intended application. BUT this might just be "internet rhetoric"....
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Most of the rockers only stuff I've seen was all tq gains. Like 8/18 hp/tq. Trucks like high idle vacuum for good off idle torque. A simple rocker upgrade won't affect that. Might even improve it
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If you spend a lot of time above 5k rpm, then that's fair to say. Most street cars don't see this kind of use, especially trucks. The LS6 valvetrain was designed for spirited street use with track capabilities. There is some trade-off to be said about springs that are too snappy on an already noisy LS valvetrain, including extra stress on lifters. The latest LS6 springs, IMO, provide a happy medium of driveability and performance with little compromise. For racing applications, a custom valvetrain is prescribed.
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OK, thanks for clarifying!