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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:06 PM
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which will give me the biggest gain as far as 1/4mile?
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:27 PM
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with a tune and a stall, i picked up 7/10 of a second, and also swapping gears. 3.42 to 3.73's
dont know about a cam, fixing to find out tho
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:28 PM
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Hrm, they all play an important part for your performance.

Too big of a cam with stock stall and you won't gain much if any performance at the track. To max the benefit from a cam, you'll need to tune it. Small stalls need to be dialed in to prevent misfire codes.

What parts are you looking at?
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:57 PM
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yank3000, nelson tune, and not sure about the cam
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 06:08 PM
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That converter shouldn't set any codes as it's pretty tame from what I understand. Either way, I'd start with a tune, then stall, then cam.

That way with a tune you can setup yourself for more mods in the future. Hell just the tune on my truck and I picked up quite a bit of economy and power to boot!
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 06:38 PM
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I'd get the converter and a shiftkit. That dropped 7/10's off my time. This was before any tuning what so ever. Having these will give you better net gains from a tune and a cam when the time comes.
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Originally Posted by 01 Thunder
with a tune and a stall, i picked up 7/10 of a second, and also swapping gears. 3.42 to 3.73's
dont know about a cam, fixing to find out tho
What stall do you have again? I got the Vig 3200 and I can't hook for crap. Did you use slicks or at least DRs?
I'm debating a cam and higher gears since the 410s and stall are a bit much, what do you think, 3.42s or 373s?
(My 4.10s may be for sale soon)
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by 01 Thunder
with a tune and a stall, i picked up 7/10 of a second, and also swapping gears. 3.42 to 3.73's
dont know about a cam, fixing to find out tho
With a Hypertech HPPIII and Yank TT3000 stall I dropped a full second off my ET!
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Chingy ... I just yanked a set of 3.42's for ya if you want them. PM me if you do and we can work something out.
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Old Jun 26, 2004 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Chingon
I'm debating a cam and higher gears since the 410s and stall are a bit much, what do you think, 3.42s or 373s?
why dont u just get an aggresive top-end cam to even it out?
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