LS6 fell in my lap....help me pick a cam
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Hey ddnspider, these two cams will have very similar personalities and powerbands in your LS6. The Titan 2 will have the smoother idle of the two, but both will be very mild. HP can vary pretty widely depending on the vehicle and dyno. I would expect between 380 and 410 with the Titan 3. The Titan 3 is about 10 hp stronger than the Titan 2. I have always said the Titan 2 is a no sacrifice camshaft. It is just better than stock across the board and drives just as good.
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Every dyno and car is different. With your remarkably strong baseline number, you will have equally strong number with a cam. That is why I hate guessing wheel dyno numbers. They are all over the place and are only good for comparisons to themselves.
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Mine is stock LS6 intake to oil pan, (lid, filter, 1 3/4 headers, hi flow cats, magnaflow) need at least an intake manifold to get over 400, and h/c/I to 450. Possibly if I had 1 7/8 headers, no cats, and true duals it might make 400
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I was going to go with the mild performance stage 3....then looked at the lift and said screw it and decided on the Titan 2. I'm working a package deal with WS6 store. I should change the title of the thread and make it a build thread. The lifter carnage is pretty cool. Found the pin that goes through the lifter roller in the lifter tray.....on the opposite side of the motor
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30 more sounds promising, of course I'd have to do some head work too which would be worth more.
Yeah I understand, I'm just thinking of doing a midrange heads/cam in the future and hoping for more, but with III cam, headwork and intake, should be good.
Mine is stock LS6 intake to oil pan, (lid, filter, 1 3/4 headers, hi flow cats, magnaflow) need at least an intake manifold to get over 400, and h/c/I to 450. Possibly if I had 1 7/8 headers, no cats, and true duals it might make 400
Yeah I understand, I'm just thinking of doing a midrange heads/cam in the future and hoping for more, but with III cam, headwork and intake, should be good.
Mine is stock LS6 intake to oil pan, (lid, filter, 1 3/4 headers, hi flow cats, magnaflow) need at least an intake manifold to get over 400, and h/c/I to 450. Possibly if I had 1 7/8 headers, no cats, and true duals it might make 400
I did ditch the dual dual for a homemade 3.5" after y i made. It pick up a tenth and 1+mph with that and made 407 whp.
They do like 1 7/8s headers and i eventually put a ported ls6 intake on mine and made 413. Never made it back to that dyno but went to another dyno and made 399 on same stuff. It picked up 14 hp going to a ported fast 90 on that dyno...same day change car never left the dyno. Then another 4hp with 1.8 rockers/psi 1511 springs.
It will likely get close to 450 on the stock h/c with recent changes. Others have made more than me with them at this point. Idk how much my 9" eats up as i haven't dyno'd with it.....might only make 440 range idk. If it picks up at the track I'll be happy.
How does yours run at the track?
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Mine is stock to with bolt ons. They will and can go over 400 on a ls6 intake......i did it with crappy mac headers still on the ofr y pipe and stock dual dual.
I did ditch the dual dual for a homemade 3.5" after y i made. It pick up a tenth and 1+mph with that and made 407 whp.
They do like 1 7/8s headers and i eventually put a ported ls6 intake on mine and made 413. Never made it back to that dyno but went to another dyno and made 399 on same stuff. It picked up 14 hp going to a ported fast 90 on that dyno...same day change car never left the dyno. Then another 4hp with 1.8 rockers/psi 1511 springs.
It will likely get close to 450 on the stock h/c with recent changes. Others have made more than me with them at this point. Idk how much my 9" eats up as i haven't dyno'd with it.....might only make 440 range idk. If it picks up at the track I'll be happy.
How does yours run at the track?
I did ditch the dual dual for a homemade 3.5" after y i made. It pick up a tenth and 1+mph with that and made 407 whp.
They do like 1 7/8s headers and i eventually put a ported ls6 intake on mine and made 413. Never made it back to that dyno but went to another dyno and made 399 on same stuff. It picked up 14 hp going to a ported fast 90 on that dyno...same day change car never left the dyno. Then another 4hp with 1.8 rockers/psi 1511 springs.
It will likely get close to 450 on the stock h/c with recent changes. Others have made more than me with them at this point. Idk how much my 9" eats up as i haven't dyno'd with it.....might only make 440 range idk. If it picks up at the track I'll be happy.
How does yours run at the track?
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You should be able to get there. I ran 11.83 @119.8 back then with a combo similar to yours on 18s. I did have 4.10s in the 10bolt then. 3.90s are stronger tho so i would recommend them. They like rpm. Set the li.iter at 7k if you haven't and shift @ 6800-6900.
I recently set my limiter to 7300 because it cracks the limiter at 7k so easily. Really it only noses over just before the limiter.....which was probably a tad late hitting.....log was right at 7500 if i remember right. Ima try some 7200~ shift points when i get the new mods ironed out.
Good motors. The seem to respond if you just pop the hood and look at them.
I recently set my limiter to 7300 because it cracks the limiter at 7k so easily. Really it only noses over just before the limiter.....which was probably a tad late hitting.....log was right at 7500 if i remember right. Ima try some 7200~ shift points when i get the new mods ironed out.
Good motors. The seem to respond if you just pop the hood and look at them.
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The LS6 really was a fantastic factory motor. Sorta a LS1 done right. I wish the firehawks had come with the LS6 vs the LS1. That really woulda been the right thing to do by them.
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Agreed.
I may as well complete the circle and link this thread to my actual build thread for future reference.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/generatio...ws6-store.html
I may as well complete the circle and link this thread to my actual build thread for future reference.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/generatio...ws6-store.html
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Late to this thread as well, but my LS6 crate longblock swap put down 400.1 RWHP after Vengeance Racing did the tune. I'm running Hooker shorty headers with both cats, SLP 2OTL cat-back, and the usual bolt-ons. I was at 385 RWHP and then I added the FAST 92mm intake and Nick Williams 92mm TB to get me to the 400.1 RWHP mark. My LS6 longblock is bone stock internally. Both dyno runs were on the same dyno at Vengeance. They did the original tune as well, and then the re-tune when I added the Intake and TB.