great pics! that bastard of a lifter

 

As long as you follow the instructions and don't get to frustrated you should be good to go. Just torque everything down, set a time frame that you wont have to rush to meet the deadline, and just relax. Here in Miami its hot as **** so my engine temp. gets as high as about 228*-230*, and thats in heavy traffic. Oil pressure stabilizes in the itself around mid to high 30s. Idles pretty good, stumbles and dies a few times but otehr times it stumbles and picks itself right back up. Yeah that lifter was a son of a bitch, thank god he didn't fall. Thats why the dowel rods aren't perfect.
-Joel

 

And this here is a must after a well done cam install:

-Joel

 

Awesome dude, can't wait to give mine a shot in the spring... How many miles are on your car?

-J

 

My cars about to roll into the 60K mile mark. Thats the reason I changed to the TSP ported oil pump since i was already in there i might as well.
-Joel

 

Did you degree the camshaft after install? I just skimmed your text didnt see it. Thanks,
John

 

Not really i just followed the LS1 How To instructions and aligned the dots. Whats the reason of degreeing the cam if i may ask?
-Joel

 

with a good tune will the a/c still be functionable with an ms3 cam?

 

You only have to degree a cam with an adjustable timing set the LS2 is not adjustable. With a good tune you can use a/c all you want my car drive just fine with it on.

 

great, thanks.

 

If i turn on the A/C now the idle drops i bit like it wants to die, but a tune will fix that with no problem.
-Joel

 

congrats joel cant wait to see it on the december meet Alex

 

How did the tune go? How is the car running? Any stalling problems with the new cam?

 

Well i just got back and the car runs great. Ryan @ Rev Extreme *Tampa* did the tuning. Hes a real cool guy was explaining things to me using HP Tuners where everything should be and what parameters he will be playing with. The shop was bad-***, i didn't want to leave. First dyno run was:
Max Horsepower-382.92
Max Torque-359.14
A/F-13.15@6300RPMs
The weather was 68.27 degrees *F with 21% Humidity
He ran it on the dyno 6 times playing with the timing and a/f. After the 5th dyno pull he gave it an hour cool down and on the final pass it came with:
Max Horsepower-386.64
Max Torque-367.01
A/F-13.47@6550RPMs
He set the idle at 950rpms, at times it seems like it wants to die but then the rpms jump right back up to 950. I have no complaints whatsoever. I knew i was going to lose a good amount of low end torque, but let me tell you when you take this baby up to 6500rpm you better sit back and hold on.
-Joel

 

What was your baseline number? Any stalling at lights? Just curious.

Get your video camera out!

 

Very stout numbers I bet she rips very nicely now.

 

I know what you mean I retarted my cam with a ls2 and made 900 tq ft at da spool and Thats about it .


Guess you shouldnt buy an adustable timing set huh ..more work and we dont want to do more work .


read post # 10 & 11 https://ls1tech.com/forums/generation-iii-internal-engine/327734-cam-guide.html

 

shouldnt a ms3 dyno more? i dynoed higher with a much smaller cam. confused here??

 

no ls6 intake I presume . low dcr .. killed it ordering a 113lsa looking forward to the 350 shot. come on thats what the cams for I got the magic **** ah crap .. somebody stop me

 

what springs did you use? Did they fit right in or did you have to set them up?