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Old May 28, 2006 | 04:06 PM
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I was wondering but kind of power gains through the RPM band with this cam. I have QTP Headers and ORY if that helps any. But I am new to this. Also how is the idle I dont wanna go to big of a car cause I still wanna drive it often. Thanks
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I just installed it about a month ago and am going to get it tuned this week. I drilled out the throttle body a little and the idling is bearable. This cam has a very nice grumble to it. I can definately feel the power in the midrange. I love it. I was also not wanting to go too big because it is my DD. I will post up the graph after the tune.

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Great thanks a lot man
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Mine makes 381 rwhp/373 rwtq. It makes 350+ rwtq from 3000-5700 rpms. Horespower peaks at 5950 rpms.
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Old May 30, 2006 | 02:41 PM
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Mine makes 381 rwhp/373 rwtq. It makes 350+ rwtq from 3000-5700 rpms. Horespower peaks at 5950 rpms.
nice numbers-I see so many people say such and such cam will put out much better numbers than the hotcam, but it seems in line with many popular grinds of this size. With it untuned did you notice a pretty big difference over stock? What I really love about this cam is you can forget about having to change valvesprings, and even if you do some time in the future they are awefully cheap (LS6 springs)
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That's with Hot Cam, Hooker LT headers, ORY, and tune.
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It is good to change the valve springs to LS6 style when installing the cam. Don't wait.

As for noticing a difference from stock, yes there is a big difference untuned.
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Originally Posted by d james
nice numbers-I see so many people say such and such cam will put out much better numbers than the hotcam, but it seems in line with many popular grinds of this size. With it untuned did you notice a pretty big difference over stock? What I really love about this cam is you can forget about having to change valvesprings, and even if you do some time in the future they are awefully cheap (LS6 springs)
unless you already have an LS6 engine (ie LS6 vlave springs) you'd better change your springs.
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Originally Posted by d james
nice numbers-I see so many people say such and such cam will put out much better numbers than the hotcam, but it seems in line with many popular grinds of this size. With it untuned did you notice a pretty big difference over stock? What I really love about this cam is you can forget about having to change valvesprings, and even if you do some time in the future they are awefully cheap (LS6 springs)
Those were my numbers on the stock tune. I have not redynoed the car since.

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