camar0corey

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My 503 seems to surge more in the morning when the car is cold. Rest of the day it can leave from a stop nice and smooth, if I don't engage the clutch too quickly.
So I guess my car is *** backwards, when in closed loop its quite the jolt that first time I try to get rolling.

wrd1972

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What clutch do you have?

camar0corey

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Street Twin. When I had a single disc six puck, you really had to concentrate with that thing to take off smooth. And forget trying to back up an incline! So glad I put that street twin in, now I can actually back up driveways without looking like the car is having a seizure.

wrd1972

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That clutch as well as nearly all aftermarket clutches (excluding dual faced organic single disks) simply grab harder and faster and IMO that is responsable for the behavior you are describing. Its just a characteristic of performance clutches.

I dont think it has anything to do with the surge or any other negative characteristic of the aftermarket cam. If you had a OEM spec, single dual faced organic disk along with your 503 cam, it would likely "clutch" like and drive like stock.

I have a Competition Clutch Stage 2 which has six cerametallic pucks on one side and organic on the other and it is fast off the clutch pedal but not near as fast as my old Spec 3+ was. Also whether or not there are marcel springs in the disk, or in your case disks, greatly affects how fast the clutch pedal works. IIRC, the ST does not have marcel springs where mine and all OEM disks, will.

Adjusting driving style is the solution here. I typically just raise the RPM a bit harder to pull out from a stationary position and its smooth as silk.

TIIMuch

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I drive my 383Lt1/T56 everyday and run a lunati 211/219(60120),...I love it.
Huge torque right from idle.
The truth of it for me is that I find myself idling around a lot,...just maintaining 30 mph in town at just above idle,...with the six speed and this cam I never get bucking/surging.
The car hauls too,...with 3.73's it's all I can do to keep the car hooked up in the first 2.5 gears.
I just did a 5 hour highway trip that I've done many times over a ten year period ,hundreds of times in this car when it was factory stock. I started with a full tank of gas and I filled it up when I got home at the same station, like I always did, and I was just shocked by how good the mileage was,...and I was really getting into it whenever possible.

Impressed.

bowtienut

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Holy Smokes!!!! I would HOPE that combo would have no surge! That's a tiny cam for a 383!
It SHOULD drive every bit as tame as a stock cube / stock cam LT1. You've built a tractor engine

TIIMuch

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It had a CC305 for a while,...it had more power for the 1% of the driving I did at +5,000rpm, for me, in the city, DD'ing it, this cam is better,...just sharing my expereince.

ahritchie

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Lol...and I thought my 60122 (231/239) in my new motor was smallish for a 383. I'd like to hear what one of these baby cammed sleeper 383's can do on a dyno or on the track.... I guess it just depends on where you want the power and how you drive it since a "streetable" cam as defined by one person is un-driveable pain in the *** by another.

gregrob

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You can easily add more fuel at those areas where its needed in a closed loop tune. You just have to know what you're doing.

Zero reason for an OLSD tune just for that.

bowtienut

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I wasn't knocking you. I agree, I'd much rather have the Lunati cam than that P.O.S CC305, even in a stroker.

bowtienut

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If you can hook it up, the ET will surprise most people
Easy 11's

Puck

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Alan was running low 11s NA with a baby cammed 383 in a full street car. He sold it a while back and I think the new owner still races it.

96lt1m6

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Alan(ABA383) had a 383 firebird from LPE with their cnc'd ported heads and 211/219 A4 w/stall Alan ran hi 11s. Search his name and you will see many threads and posts.......

Short duration high lift works very well to give you a stock like feeling when cruising.

ahritchie

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That is pretty impressive, not to mention the stealth factor....could definitely surprise some unsuspecting victims. That said, I still like the bigger cam sound more and winding it out to 6800+ rpm

Rodinator1234

Yes I still have stock rear 3.42's and clutch is unknown. Stock or stock replacement I would assume. Yes I slip the clutch a bunch. Like I said earlier, for me the surge is only really bad trying to come up my drive way. It's a up hill, slow drive and lots of clutch slip. But that's a small price to pay for the performance of the car, I really enjoy this combo. I want to do something with the rear gear, I just don't know what yet.

1SWT95Z

Does anyone know about how big of a duration cam would be "too much" for a stock stall A4? What kind of driving conditions would this cause?

joelster

Yeppers!

XFI 468 242/248 .584/.579 on a 114
stock lifters
Trickflow chromoly pushrods
Comp Magnum roller tip rockers 1.6
2.02/1.60 valves
918 beehives, with steel retainers and machined locks.

My friend Paul did a lot of the assembly and didn't like the way the 918's sat in the seat. We couldn't get the install height just right, it was too short. He measured it at coil bind and he said it was too close for comfort. I ordered a set of .050+" taller locks and that was all it took. He showed me his way of adjusting the valves which is zero lash plus about 1/16th of a turn. That was back in 2006 and I have not touched them since. The motor is sitting here now waiting for a new home. It will go to 7k all day long, I typically shifted it at 68-6900.

I'd be willing to bet that most of these valvetrain problems that guys have will be a simple combination of too low of install height on the springs combined with too much preload on the lifters. They probably just slap them on and turn the key. Then toss the blame at Comp when the motor won't rev.

96capricemgr

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A stock motor benefits from more stall, so the better way to go would be to buy the stall first then cam later.

TIIMuch

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When I was going to build my 383 I remembered the articles about the Lingefelter 383's with his super ram intakes making huge torque in street cars.
I searched and found this,...notice the 383's with smallish cams and 100 and 110% efficiency,...

http://www.strokerengine.com/DynoTPI.html


In his book on building SBC's,(350/383) in the camshaft chapter he sez anything above 211(350)-219(383) on the intake results in reversion into the intake on a street machine operating mostly at or below 3,000rpm.

I went with what John did.

Puck

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Wow, I haven't seen that link in YEARS.

Lingenfelter had some nasty street cars back in the day. 528 ft-lbs TQ from a 225int cammed 409 LT1 would make for one FUN toy.

Also reminds me how mad I am that Dart bailed on the big cube LTX block idea . Easier access to 400+ cube LT1s would have been huge for the aftermarket and reinvigorated the LT1 scene. Imagine the heads and intakes that would have been developed to feed those 434+ci monsters.