Alright I am trying to select a new cam for my car. So far I have ran the Cheater and the TSP 233/239 on the 112lsa. I love the low end power of the cheater, however the tsp was stronger up top and had the sound I want. Due to some lifters taking a crap on me the tsp is useless now. I dont wanna use the cheater which I still have since it is a high lift cam.
I am getting rid of my patriot II heads in place of bone stock ls2 heads with the yellow springs, which I believe are good to .580 lift. Since the heads were free I would like to keep this as cheap as possible so please don't give me a list of supporting mods for a cam. I already have everything else to sustain a healthy heads cam setup.

So what my question is,what would be a recommended cam that would have good power under the curve and still have that nasty choppy idle with out being a high lift cam? I daily drive this car but driveability to me is if the car doesnt die when I come to a stop thats good enough for me. With the cheater cam I was at 420rwhp so I would like to have a cam that can make or break those numbers but have the idle of the TSP or nastier

Please I dont need any smartasses telling me I need to search, because I have. I just cant find what I am looking for except alot of threads telling people to use the search: So any ideas info would be greatly appreciated suggestions on were to look or what to stay away from. I know I am asking to have my cake and eat it to but dont we all want that

 

asa cam hands down. You can get regrinds or fresh copy's on ebay for like $110 but they are not always on there.

 

ASA? I am not sure what you are talking about.

 

search ASA 76 pages of info

 

The ole stock car cams. ASA was a tripple-A series to NASCAR that used LS1 crate motors for a while. They have a nice cam in them that, by the looks of the specs, would be a good street-strip cam.

Whatever you do, always go a lil smaller than what you feel rather than a lil bigger than what you feel like. (flame suit on)

 

theres always the custom grind option if you cant find what you are looking for. some people hate that answer and say customs are a fad but it is a reasonable option.

 

Chevy has a lot of HP cams that I didnt even realize were in existance until I was playing around on their little virtual dyno. Some big cams! I think the lift was all relatively small too.

 

Isn't the ASA cam something like a 225/236 with low .500 lift?? That almost sounds too sweet to pass on.

 

alright I appreciate it guys I will look into the asa. Any more ideas?

 

I vote the ASA also. That is a sweet *** cam. I was about to go with that myself but then I went with a 228/230.

 

Okay here are some of the performance cams chevy offers:

Ol' Hotcam 219/228 .525/.525 112LSA
ASA Cam PN 12480110 226/236 .525/.525 110LSA
LS Stage II Cam PN 88958722 227/239 .551/.551 108LSA
LS Stage 3 cam PN 88958723 233/276 .595/.595 107LSA

The last few are some monsters. Check out that LSA!

 

damn!! be nice to have that stage II

 

Is it ironic that you expressed interest in a nasty cam on post 666 for you? We may have a winner...

 

you might be onto something there

 

Any help plz. I have a 2012 Camaro SS six speed. So far long tube headers, high flow cats and complete 3" stainless exhaust. Afraid cold air and sct programmer. I'm looking to add a nasty cam to my ride any suggestions... im looking at the ls stage 3 cam or an Asa cam . Also any suggestions on changing out the rocker arms to 1.8 . What kind of horsepower am I looking at? My goal is 500rwhp ... any info would be greatly appreciated

 

you will need a return .get a cam designed for a ls3 head flow .you will need after market springs and push rods with a after market cam.stick with the stock rocker arms .

 

Any recommendations? Why change out the pushrods too if I use the stock 1.7rockers? Also shat do you think about changing the rockers to 1.8 to get more out of the cam, then I understand the pushrod change out if needed. Also wanted to use Fast's 102mm intake and throttle body.

 

The rocker arms do not dictate the pushrods needed...the higher lift that a cam has is by reducing the base circle diameter which then needs a different
length pushrod in order to have proper lifter preload since the factory rocker
arms have no adjustability. Also factory pushrods are very weak for higher
rpm applications with high lift/aggressive cam profiles. Valvetrain stability is
dramatically improved with thicker wall aftermarket pushrods.

 

Congrats rookie! You just brought back a 5 year old thread so you've now popped your rookie cherry. You didn't stop there though, you put a gen 4 motor question into the gen 3 section. Okay, enough bustin your *****. Listen to garygnu and A.R. shale targa, they are giving you sound advice on this.

 

Was 2008 really that long ago. Damn. And the 90s were 20 years ago. Ugh.