239/242, .649"/.609 112lsa

its a texas speed magic stick v4 cam

what would i need if upgrading to this from a bone stock 99 z/28?? (think budget wise)
headers ofcourse but seriously what else?

 

your asking if that cam is too big to pass smog. Then yes

about the biggest you can safely go without of an out-of-this-world tune is a 224-224-112LSA or about a 228-228-114LSA or there abouts

 

I believe as long as you keep your overlap at 0 or negative you will pass. The cam you mentioned has 16 degrees of overlap and would not pass.

 

ethanol has zero emissions so if you run your car with a lot of ethanol for the test you will be able to pass.

 

Does Cali actually put the car on rollers and sniff it?

 

yes they do

 

ahhh.. N/M then. They just scan the OBD-II in AZ

 

yep and it sucks!

 

You are so not going to pass.

Ive seen people with a 224/224 on a 114 have trouble passing here, but alot of them do slip by. If you want to remain legal, go for a split. 220/226 with moderate lift on a 115+ or somthing along those lines should take advantage of the legal exhaust and intake bias. Even running somthing like a CheaTR 214/230 .601/.575 117 LSA would be an option.

 

You could always leave the stock cam in, take it to have it smogged, then put the big cam back.

You would need to have HPTuners, or a friend that does, and have two seperate tunes.

Just an idea.

 

You did not just seriously ask this question..

you also mentioned headers.. well.. you can't do longtubes in Cali, you'll fail a visual inspection.

Move to another state.

 

gosh cali is so gay i feel bad for all you guys that wanna mod your cars over there...why the hell are they so strict,is it all the tree huggers or something??
sry kinda off topic

 

Yes cali sucks for car people...
Op, I would reccomend talking to ryne at CMS. Hes done pretty well by me over the last couple of weeks.

 

From what I understand getting 0 or - overlap is the key Headers are really needed to take full advantage of any decent sized cam and then you will fail the visual test so maybe the Cheatr is your best option so you can stay stock exhaust. Can you get by with some mids and a 224?

Maybe join a car club and find out where all the big mod guys around there get their car inspected. Everbody knows it goes on

 

No mids. Shorties only

 

Move to texas

 

thats the plan for this guy!

 

I think the reason is that there is so many people here.
They have to get the cars to put out less smog to be on par with other states that have less cars.

 

You mean I can move to California and get me a sissy illegal alien man to marry so we can collect welfare and food stamps and sit around and smoke medical marijuana all day, but if I put a big cam in my LS when I get there I'll get busted? Damn, and to think I already had my bags packed.

 

Florida does not even have Smog Tests. I'm packing now!