has anyone done this cam on an otherwise stock car? What about just with a stall? What kind of 1/4 mile times did it get you over the stock cam?

 

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You may gain, 2-3 tenths with just the cam. Maybe a half sec if you add LTs too.

 

anyone have any results?

 

My friends 99 SS A4 went 13.8's with boltons then put in TR224 and LS6 intkae and some DR's and went 13.3 untuned.

13's because of altitude and DA..DA sits around 5k or so all day long.

 

Are you talking just the cam or the cam plus the usual bolt ons? I went 13.3 with bolt ons, and 12.1 with cam only on an et street and 411 gear. Minor suspension also. This was a m6 with a specIII.

 

Stock with just a lid I think I was going 13.5 @ 105 w 2.2sixty, added the cam and went 12.50's-12.70's on a 2.0 sixty. Added some rear suspension, 4.11 in a 9", good clutch and leaving on an ET street off the limiter and went 12.1@115 mph w/ 1.71sixty

 

hey did you ever think of the 231/237 cam? Its not that much bigger but I think it has better results which you might like better. Im not a cam expert like some of the people in here its just I think this cam you might be a little more happy with and might not change it a year down the road.

 

trigger, you got a second knocked off with the cam? that is nuts!! bolt ons too i assume right?

 

No 1/4 mile results, but my car went 8.39@87 with stock cam and headers. With TR224 it went 8.37@90. Runs with stock cam were done with seats out in Sept.80* Runs with TR224 were done with full weight in Aug.95*

I have stock gearing and clutch and my 60's were all above 2.0. My 60's were actually worse with the TR224 than with the stock cam. So the car is definitely faster just needs some gear to help get moving, maybe 3.73 or so.

 

I have a hard time believing that on a bone stock car plus a lid that a cam swap dropped you from 13.5 to 12.7. There had to be weather, traction, or driving improvements. With stock manifolds squeezing much more than 30hp is tough to do from a swap. My guess is that the .2 improvement in 60' was due to improved driving more than power and that is part of it.

.2 - .3 is the typical range of a gain from a cam swap on car that has stock manifolds and a factory catback.

 

My fault, I forgot to mention that with the cam swap I did swap a set of mac midlengths on the car, ORY, and a cutout. Really though who does a cam without adding a decent exhaust setup?

 

I ran the TR 224/224 for a few years, of the 4 cams I've had it was without a doubt the best. Great low and mid range. Trust me you will be very happy with that cam with just some bolt ons.

 

me, guys from so cal or other places where visual inspection is a bitch, and newbies who need to be told to do headers first.

You're right that most people do full bolt-ons first.

 

When the car was going 12.5's it was lid, cam, macs, ory, cutout. Stock ls1 intake.

The best I could manage this year was 12.1's. To achieve this I added a 9" w/ 4.11 gear since I broke the 10bolt, BMR adjustable crossmember mounted T/a, adj. LCA's and CE shocks in the rear. I also added a fast 90 in preperation for my "new" setup, although the car wasn't tuned for it it seemed to pick up a little bit.The front suspension is stock and is what really hurt the setup. I have recently added an SSRA in hopes of getting to this setup into the 11's. I really felt that with the SSRA and good weather I could get that car into the 117mph area which would be good for mid/high 11's w/ 1.7x sixty foot times.

Now the TR224 is coming out and a TREX is going in. The mac's are also getting ditched in favor of a set of Kooks 1 7/8th primary headers and true duals. QA1's are going on the front of the car as well.

 

I had the TR224 and all the bolt ons on my C5. Stock heads.

I really enjoyed the cam. The car had power.

Recently, I changed to the TSP 228R and AFR heads. The car didnt seem to pick up much more power. I added 3:90 gears, and the car is really fun now. My tuner could not fix the bucking and says all the cars he tunes with cams have low RPM bucking.

 

Hmm, how bad is your bucking? I can run my car 40mph ~1100 rpm in 6th gear and it's fine.