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Old May 27, 2015 | 03:06 PM
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bumpers we have several cams in stock that might work for wat u need look us or u can hit us up 9567832310 we are running great deals on cam packages ... we also have the dod kit
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Old May 27, 2015 | 04:12 PM
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I will check it out.. thanks
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Old May 28, 2015 | 04:31 AM
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Bumpers
Any input as to how the higher lift moves the power around ? Seems like most or the more cams for low end have lower lift numbers ?
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Lift has 0 effect on "where" the power comes in at.

Duration is what you want to be focused on. The higher the duration, the higher in the RPM band you have to spin it to make power.

Keep you goals realistic. If you drive back and forth to work everyday, then don't go get a 224+ duration cam. You'll be disappointed.

I run a Comp LSR 265. It's a 217/223 cam. I also have a 3200 stall and 4.11's but I am more then happy with this cam. I love it.

Again, the biggest thing is to keep you goal realistic and be honest to yourself with how you drive your truck then the cam you pick, will be want you want and you won't be disappointed.

(Yes, the LSR 265 cam as over .600 lift.....and that's ok)
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by madmann26
So,

Lift has 0 effect on "where" the power comes in at.

Duration is what you want to be focused on. The higher the duration, the higher in the RPM band you have to spin it to make power.

Keep you goals realistic. If you drive back and forth to work everyday, then don't go get a 224+ duration cam. You'll be disappointed.

I run a Comp LSR 265. It's a 217/223 cam. I also have a 3200 stall and 4.11's but I am more then happy with this cam. I love it.

Again, the biggest thing is to keep you goal realistic and be honest to yourself with how you drive your truck then the cam you pick, will be want you want and you won't be disappointed.

(Yes, the LSR 265 cam as over .600 lift.....and that's ok)

Thanks. I have some knowledge of cams and how they work but not a lot. I was just wondering why all the smaller torque cams all have low lift numbers. Wasn't sure if that also had something to do with where the power comes in at or not.


It looks like I will be going with something custom grind when I get ready...





In other news one of the lifters in my truck was making some awful racket I thought it was the end for it... now it has stopped and all is well again
Hopefully it buys me some time so I don't have to jump on this so quickly but I know with a dod truck its day is coming
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 05:10 PM
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I been looking at the ultra torque 210/218 .
Hard to pick between the 206/212 ...212/218 and the 210/218 .
We pretty much have the same truck but I am missing the 6 speed and on 410s with 33s
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 05:17 PM
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The smaller torque focused cams have smaller lift to cut the cost of supporting mods. Brian Tooley designed his truck cams to use yellow GM springs.
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 10:27 PM
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Crane cams also has three baby cams under there power max line. They have a 200/200 a slightly larger one and then a 210/218
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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 10:36 PM
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Without headers you need valve events to be slightly different than with... You're dealing with more exhaust pressure and the cam needs to reflect that. It's not as easy as just tossing more exhaust duration at it. There's a reason all the stock cams have an exhaust bias AND retard in them. The factory stuff goes more conservative than you need to of course... But there is most definitely a method to their madness.

Trust me when I say all those cams would look different with stock manifolds in mind.

If it were mine id go something along the lines of a 210-212/218-220 on a 111-112 LSA straight up. Center overlap on the intake side. Id also use soft lobes and LS6 springs.

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Old Jun 1, 2015 | 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Vortec350ss
Without headers you need valve events to be slightly different than with... You're dealing with more exhaust pressure and the cam needs to reflect that. It's not as easy as just tossing more exhaust duration at it. There's a reason all the stock cams have an exhaust bias AND retard in them. The factory stuff goes more conservative than you need to of course... But there is most definitely a method to their madness.

Trust me when I say all those cams would look different with stock manifolds in mind.

If it were mine id go something along the lines of a 210-212/218-220 on a 111-112 LSA straight up. Id also use soft lobes and LS6 springs.
So if your doing headers it's better to go with a more even or closer split like a 212/212 or a 218/218
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