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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:26 PM
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I have a 01 Trans-Am with a lid and exhuast. I was wonderin about getting the LS6 Heads from a Zo6. I was wondering if these are good heads to get for my car and if they will give me some pretty good power gains. I also wanted to get a pretty agressive cam for my car. My car is not a daily driver car so gas mileage is not really an issure for me
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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:34 PM
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LS6 heads are good. Ported LS6 heads are better. AFR makes some very nice and currently hot ported LS1 heads though.

Now I go through the standard "you sure you ready for a cam?" list.
When you say exhaust do you mean the full exhaust, headers and all?
What tranny? If A4 do you have a converter? If M6 do you have a new clutch and rear end? (rear end if track is in it's future)
What gears do you have?
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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:41 PM
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i have a m6 with stock gears and a cat-back exhuast
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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:42 PM
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and my car is just a street car
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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:47 PM
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You are not ready for heads/cam. You need to get headers (longtubes preferable, mids okay) and a Y-pipe or duals. For a radical aggressive cam you need gears.

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