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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 12:03 PM
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Heres the last time i hit the dyno with a good tranny and locking the converter. Pretty happy with the power and torque curve. This is a Golen, yes Golen 396 the same way he sells it on the website. Motor has around 15,000 miles. Ill refresh it next year. What do you guys think? Ill probably keep the cam and send my heads to AI.
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 12:25 PM
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That curve looks like it's gonna pull your eye ***** to the back of your head. Looks good to me.
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 12:56 PM
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That Tq curve is nasty, she must haul ***.

Any track times?
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 01:18 PM
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Cam only LS1 LS6 numbers. Badass!
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 02:25 PM
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Really? 400 rwtq at under 3000 in a cam only ls1? That's great! Keep looking at these ridiculous inflated numbers in the dyno section..

Thanks guys..no times I blew the Trans twice at the track
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 02:26 PM
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why would you wanna freshen it up after only 15k? iv got a golen 396 thats daily driven and has around 30k on it. runs just fine. had the heads off not too long ago to be ported and the cross hatching looked like it was honed last week.
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 02:30 PM
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Damn close.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...k-results.html
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 02:45 PM
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Great numbers! Planning on getting one of their shortblocks this fall for my next build.
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 05:23 PM
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Elky...Chad said 25k is a safe bet. Plus I want to bump compression and change up the top end
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 06:33 PM
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ur already at 12.25 and u want more? why exactly did he say that? what rings are you running?
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 06:35 PM
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just to throw this in, im at 11.4 compression with ported 195cc afrs. i made 502 rwhp on a mustang dyno on a mail order tune.
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 06:38 PM
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What cam? The heads on here are basically cleaned up tfs. Idc about dyno numbers i'm just happy with the curve
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 06:53 PM
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236/242 .575/.575 112. one of the red aluminum rockers it came with decided to trash a bearing so they all got replaced with 1.52 ultra pro mags which brings the lift numbers up to .582
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 06:55 PM
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ported factory lt4 intake too. and yes, before anyone asks, the heads are lt4 afrs
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 07:19 PM
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Nice numbers.

I'll prob go with the 215 tfs from advanced
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by gregrob
Cam only LS1 LS6 numbers. Badass!
Dude, go buy an LS1/LS6/LS-whatever and go be an *** in their section.

You know some ****, ill give you that, and on other forums you act like a human and even give very very good knowledgeable info. But just stop being a total *** on here for no good reason.

Guy is just posting a dyno graph of a golen 396 motor. Im sure it doesnt come with top notch ported heads and a cam ground for max power, it sounds like this is a drop in street motor. Making that kind of power in a daily driver is respectable.
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I have one
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Old Feb 5, 2012 | 09:24 PM
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Your right. Its not a top notch motor but its got alot of displacement and alot of compression so its a blast to drive. I hope to keep the rear together and run a 11.30-50 @ 118-120 mph @ 3600 lbs in the spring.

the heads flow like 265 cfm @ .600 and the cam is 236 on the intake side, really nothing spectacular lol.
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Looks like a fun motor to me. I see low 11's easy!
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Thx man
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