What Cam Could I Use For A Stock Internal Ls1 With Stock Heads, Intake, And Longtubes. It Has Your Basic Bolt Ons. The Car Has A 6speed And I Installed 4.10 Gears

 

Almost any cam will work for that combo. Your cam choice would be based more on streetability, emissions, and HP goals.

 

Any cam you want ... go to any of the sponsors sites, go to there cam section and close your eyes and pick one

 

You have a wide choice to choose from depends if your worried about emissions or not

 

FMS Cam. Maybe the F12. I am not biased though!

 

grand am cam

 

I'd go with a cam in the 230 range esp. since you already have gears. What are your goals for the car? Do you drive it daily? How much track time does/will it see?

 

im also looking to put a cam in my stock ls1 with stock heads.looking at the hotcam. still want the car to be reliable. what do you guys suggest? (i dont really know too much about cams at all, so if you guys could give me some pointers or show me where to look and point me in the right direction that would be a huge help.)

 

don't waste you money on a hot cam. You can get a much better cam and keep it streetable

 

and i bet you speak from expeirence dont you?!? dont talk about what you dont know! i will have some proof within a week about how well the hotcam works!

 

what kind of power gains am i looking at with the hotcam?

 

Well I do have experience with the hotcam, I ran one for almost a year before swapping to the FMS F11 I have now. The hotcam sounds awesome is easy on springs, BUT there is definetly better performance to be had from other options without ANY drawbacks. I didn't have my car dynoed with the HC but I did have a base tune put in it that made it a great DD. With only the F11 and a swap to 918's on the same tune I did gain 4 mph and 3 tenths AND it was even a better DD with the same tune. My current #'s are in sig.

 

with these cams, what else needs to be done?

 

The only thing you absolutely have to have with a cam is the appropiate springs, with a good PCM tune being a close second. But many other things are nice, here's a list in the order of importance IMO:

With Cam
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springs
pushrods
timing chain
pcm tune
headers & catback
valve stem seals
rocker arms
oil pump
pulley
differential gears
lifters (inspect and replace if necessary)
ported throttle body
ported heads
heads milled for higher compression

 

heres the thing you guys keep saying, the hotcam isnt that great, much better cams out there with no drawbacks, worrying about the springs to me is a major drawback, i see hotcam cars in the 370 and 380 range all the time and they dont have to worry about springs, then i see guys with bigger cams, hitting like 400 or so, and having to worry about springs. I was gonna maybe get a 224 cam, but on here sounds like you have to check the springs often even on that cam and thats a mild cam.

 

No matter what cam or spring you have, if you rev it past 6200RPM you will ALWAYS need to check them periodically. I busted a dual spring on the stock cam.

And no matter how good the spring, revving over 6000RPM causes massive heat buildup in the springs themselves. Deterioration is inevitable.

 

Dude, seriously?

JRP is saying this?

 

well if he's going to give no goals, no applicationn, or generaly what he wants then i might as well give him an equally unassuming answer.

 

sorry guys like i said i wasnt sure what kind of power gains im looking for because i dont know what kind of powergains are to be expected out of a cam.

 

i was refering to the original thread starter.

as for you check the cam guide in my sig for the basics.