Help with CAM
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Help with CAM What's the best cam to go with? All I have for mods are bolt ons. I do plan in changing the heads in the future. I was wondering if I would benefit changing the cam with stock heads. TIA Scott
<small>[ February 08, 2003, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: sconnor ]</small>
<small>[ February 08, 2003, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: sconnor ]</small>
Re: Help with CAM Yes, youll definitely gain with just a cam. You need to do some homework on cams and decide if you want to go with an almost stock idling one or lopey, amount of lift you feel comfortable with, and just overall driveability. I gained 74 hp to the wheels with my heads, intake and a baby cam 222/222 .560 114. My car right now still sounds 95% stock but runs like its on steroids. <img border="0" alt="[burn out]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_burnout.gif" />
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Re: Help with CAM </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by I8COBRA:
<strong> Yes, youll definitely gain with just a cam. You need to do some homework on cams and decide if you want to go with an almost stock idling one or lopey, amount of lift you feel comfortable with, and just overall driveability. I gained 74 hp to the wheels with my heads, intake and a baby cam 222/222 .560 114. My car right now still sounds 95% stock but runs like its on steroids. <img border="0" alt="[burn out]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_burnout.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think I would like to have it sound somewhat lopey. Can you recommend one that will work good with what I have and give me a nice lope????? Scott
<strong> Yes, youll definitely gain with just a cam. You need to do some homework on cams and decide if you want to go with an almost stock idling one or lopey, amount of lift you feel comfortable with, and just overall driveability. I gained 74 hp to the wheels with my heads, intake and a baby cam 222/222 .560 114. My car right now still sounds 95% stock but runs like its on steroids. <img border="0" alt="[burn out]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_burnout.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think I would like to have it sound somewhat lopey. Can you recommend one that will work good with what I have and give me a nice lope????? Scott
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Re: Help with CAM Check out this thread:
https://ls1tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...=010435#000000
You will have a good lope with a 112 or 114 LSA cam, 112 having more lope than 114. The "Hammer" cam that I8COBRA was talking about is a great cam, along with the B1, T1, TR220, TR224.... And all of these will work well with a good set of aftermarket heads. These are all considered pretty mild cams that will work well on the street with tuning.
-Nick
https://ls1tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...=010435#000000
You will have a good lope with a 112 or 114 LSA cam, 112 having more lope than 114. The "Hammer" cam that I8COBRA was talking about is a great cam, along with the B1, T1, TR220, TR224.... And all of these will work well with a good set of aftermarket heads. These are all considered pretty mild cams that will work well on the street with tuning.
-Nick
Re: Help with CAM sconnor, i just installed a TR224 112lsa last night and i have stock heads and all bolt on's and free mods. my car is a 98 ss m6 with mac's and ory to a borla cat back and it sounds drive and feels awsome. i would definitly recomened this cam to anyone. the idle is awsome my car idles at 950 and it definitly has a nice lope to it. I hope to have dyno #'s and a tune done soon. Good luck with whatever cam you choose <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
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Re: Help with CAM </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by destroyerSS:
<strong> sconnor, i just installed a TR224 112lsa last night and i have stock heads and all bolt on's and free mods. my car is a 98 ss m6 with mac's and ory to a borla cat back and it sounds drive and feels awsome. i would definitly recomened this cam to anyone. the idle is awsome my car idles at 950 and it definitly has a nice lope to it. I hope to have dyno #'s and a tune done soon. Good luck with whatever cam you choose <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I had someone else recommend that cam as well. I am in the beginning stages now trying to figure out what I am going with. That is one I'm going to really consider. Thanks for the input....Scott
<strong> sconnor, i just installed a TR224 112lsa last night and i have stock heads and all bolt on's and free mods. my car is a 98 ss m6 with mac's and ory to a borla cat back and it sounds drive and feels awsome. i would definitly recomened this cam to anyone. the idle is awsome my car idles at 950 and it definitly has a nice lope to it. I hope to have dyno #'s and a tune done soon. Good luck with whatever cam you choose <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I had someone else recommend that cam as well. I am in the beginning stages now trying to figure out what I am going with. That is one I'm going to really consider. Thanks for the input....Scott
