Baby Cam questions
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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)
#15
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)
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
#16
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
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
#19
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.
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.
Last edited by Vortec350ss; Jun 1, 2015 at 10:42 PM.
#20
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.
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.


