teardown has begun!
The hard start, im not sure, could be a result of just more tuning being required for the cam, I did find something interesting in HPT which I dont know if this is a read error or not, the cranking ignition timing seemed to have some sort of hole smack in the middle of it of -10 degrees, smooth this table out helped alot.
Oh I have no idea where it dies off yet, I'll make that determination of where I want the rev limit to be based on the dyno charts at the end of the summer. 6200rpm though seems like a decent place to start, if i want to take it any farther above 6400 Im gonna want BTR pushrods and the trunion bearing upgrade on the stock rockers. Ill be heading to atco hopefully this week to face off against my buddies GTO.
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Not sure really, I kinda expected it to be faster then what I'm feeling, but given what I know about these thing's stock, I can understand why they were so slow right out of the box. The 2.93 gears must have been awful on this car, because the 3.29's are almost just as annoying. Without a power number from a dyno run yet its hard to say but id predict high to mid 13's so far with the power im feeling, it still has alot of potential to pick up with tuning though, was running considerably low ignition timing (in the teens) on the low octane tune and still was getting KR. Once the KR is cleared up, 93 is in the tank, and im hitting that 28-30* of advance at WOT, then I think the top end is going to be nasty, just then I might have the potential to pull a low 13 number, with the LS6 intake manifold down the road, and a little luck, might even get into the 12's.
also figured out my open loop fault error i posted about in the PCM tuning section, apparently disabling P0300 random misfire code does not prevent the pcm from setting a fault for it, so at idle it kept going into OPEN LOOP - FAULT because it kept detecting misfires from the cams overlap. Raised the threshold on misfire detection by 50% and went right into closed loop normal.





