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Old 01-24-2006 | 01:48 PM
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I am installing heads, cam, and headers on a friends 99 corvette. The cam is a Comp Custom Grind .584 .595 232/232 with lsa 113, the heads are 5.3 Ported and polished with 202 158 Valves and the headers SLP Long Tube Jet Coated Headers. Will the car start with this setup? I have never tuned anything, so this will be my first. Do I need to log anything on the car while its still stock? If the car will start what the first thing I need to check or change with the tune? I have read over everything about tuning on here that I could find 100's of times. The cam is the only thing I don't know about. I understand the steps to follow in tuning a normal car, just dont know what I need to do with a fresh cam install. I will be using EFI Live if that matters.
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it will probably start...I had a larger cam in an auto with stock tuning and it started just fine...moving the car was a whole nother issue though. Theres a couple of pretty good guides in the stickies at the top here as well as on efilives forum humpinss made up a good raf how to.
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Thanks. I have read all the stickies several times. I just wasn't sure about the cam, I didn't want to put it in and not be able to start the car because I needed to do something to the tune first. Once the car is up and running I am guessing you just tune like any other car.
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you'll probably want to raise the idle slightly, possibly play with the set screw, tweak your raf tables, then get on with the real tuning.
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you'll probably want to raise the idle slightly, possibly play with the set screw, tweak your raf tables, then get on with the real tuning.
My plan was to just get the car to idle then try to drive it to a data log and go from there. Or once the cars running will I have enough info to look at to start tweaking stuff before I even drive it?

I also forgot to add I am using a LC-1 wideband setup along with efi live.
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I also forgot to add I am using a LC-1 wideband setup along with efi live.

I just bought the same stuff today and have many mods done.




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