I have a brand new HOT CAM (218/227 .525) in the box with LS6 springs. My car is a stock 2002 Z28 with just a LID, MAF, LT's and 4.11's. I wanted to do the cam with LS6 intake and heads but dont have the money for intake, throttle body and heads right now. Does anyone know if this cam will do anything by itself in a stock motor with just a PCM tune or am I just waisting my time?

 

You most certainly can drop that cam right in, assuming that you will also change your springs.
A cammed car stands out. Sort of makes it special in the eyes of many on-lookers. You have everything you need to get to that next level, so why wait?!
There will be no question about performance increase. After I got my Hotcam I dyno'd 45 additional whp compared to bolt-on's only, after tune.
One thing I don't understand, though, is how you want to do heads and all that other serious stuff, but still only run the Hotcam. You gotta get a more agressive cam as part of the package once it's time for that.
But for now everything will be fine. If I was you, I'd go for it.

 

My father works for pontiac, got it for christmas, thats whet we give each other in my family...

 

LOL!
Now, that's what I call Christmas!!

 

Yeah, apparently santas elves work for summit now, it was tough wrapping my fathers slicks for his super stock car last year but we got er done.

 

I made 381/373 untuned with mine.

 

Wow.. thats cool, i was looking at this cam spectrum chart and it looks rather mild, i guess the whole point is that its a drop in, step up cam with out going nuts changing other parts. Sounds like I will do it. Are there any drivability issues, loping, crappy idle???

 

Man, if 230 is "Extreme" I wonder if the Trex and MS3 are "ULTRA EXTREEEMMEEE!".

 

Your 02 Z already has a LS6 intake.

 

My car has a LS6 Intake? I thought LS1's had LS1 Intakes and LS6's had LS6 intakes... news to me, This whole LS thing is stupid anyway, the LS6 came out in 1970 and it was 454 cubic inches. Chevy couldnt give there gen 3 enigines new letter designations???

 

Yes, 01 and up LS1 motors have the improved LS6 intake manifold.

 

Kewl...

 

I dynoed 373/371 tuned with full exhaust and hot cam. It's a decent cam that will keep you satisfied with the driveability and street manners. Plus the idle sounds great too.

 

that chart on ls1howto is old and it was made when the 230/224 was extreme

 

Hell yeah! I would take parts/cars for any said holiday!

 

hey Orangepeel, How is Simple Quick Racing, looking for a tuner close to ark?

 

hot cam sounds mean, a little more power, but more bark than bite. go for it,
hotcan cam/spray/suspension, high 10's if you can drive.

 

^^thats my plan, m/t dr's, hotcam, 150shot and a nice big stall might need a cage

thing is, im buying a beater this summer so i could basically do anything mod wise to the car and not worry about milage and drivability, but when pricing out what all id need for a trex cam id need about 1500 in parts alone from cam, springs+dual kit, oil pump, pully, rod bolts, head bolts, pushrods

wit hthe hotcam, the cam itself is cheap, and springs are 100 bucks and pushrods are like 89 bucks, cheap swap and low maintainance

 

Anyone here know if you can pass CA emissions with the Hot Cam? (I know it's probably illegal, but if it will pass the sniffer I think that would be good enough--I can't see a smog tech pulling out the cam to see if it's stock)

 

I think with the right tune and your stock manifolds/cats you might have a chance. My emissions were so low in stock trim I don't see how I couldn't.