Well one of the big issues that's stopping me from getting a cam is the fact that it's a 300 mile +/- trip to get a dyno tune (if I'm going to the time and expense to get a cam I want the most hp I can get out of it)
Would it be ok to drive the car that far untuned, or would I be better off getting a mail order tune (to get close) and then taking the drive
I understand the size of cam is going to affect the answer, so figure a medium size (in the 22x-23x range) cam

 

You'll be fine. I know a guy that has a 230ish cam in his T/A and he daily drove it and didn't get it tuned until like a year later. lol

 

I would say you are fine unless you are changing injectors or MAF.

-Geoff

 

try to stay outta high rpms and dont beat on it and you should be fine.

 

ya as long as you can get it to hold idle it isnt bad

 

Yeah, avoid going WOT, that is where danger is.

 

I second that, no worries. I ran my 224/224 with only a small air/fuel change using a predator programmer. It ran great and air/fuel was near perfect. However, a real tune is the way to go.

 

I just did heads, nice cam, headers, intake, 90mm TB, 85mm MAF, and alot more stuff and it ran sketchy at idle but did great on the highway and made a 330 mile trip to the dyno with no troubles except for a blown out front tire. Go figure. But you should be fine as long as your cam isnt HUGE!! And stay out of the upper RPM's for safety.

 

I ran a 224 cam untuned all last year. It ran fine. Had some trouble every once in a while at idle...but not very often at all once the comp learned it.
Youll be fine...dont even worry about it.
after about 50-100 miles it probably wont even stall on you...unless you turn on the a/c.