I'm wanting to drop my Hypertech and get a HPtuner. Add some headers and a Z06 cam. Anything else you guys think i should try. What about my cam choice? And does electric fans off a 05 and up sierra/silverado work on my truck?

 

I've read the z06 cam is not a good choice in the 6.0.

I am going with the Vinci 062 cam.

 

i see. i'm not wanting a hardcore cam or anything. this is a daily driver. but something better than stock.

 

Use the search up top man.

 

It's not so much that the Z06 cam is a bad choice, it's that there wont be much of a difference between the stock 6.0L LQ9 cam and the one going in. Increased cylinder pressure and the ability to rev a little higher, that's about it.

I think you have a good parts selection going here. Long tube headers, electric fan conversion either from LS1 fans or 05 up e-fans if your radiator is the larger unit, and finish off with a camshaft swap and a good tune. A 218/224 .562/.567 on a 112 LSA has been proven to be a great camshaft in a 6.0L looking for daily driver manners with a big ol' grin on your face. My friend has that camshaft in his 1500HD 6.0L lifted up on 35's and it pulls incredibly hard considering it's a lifted truck. That cam I gave to him after it being custom ground for me when I too was considering a 6.0L swap for my truck. Ended up with a 5.7L instead so he's getting to test it out for me while I test something else out.

 

how the low end on that 218/224

Dammit, I keep reading great things about the 210/218, but I don't want to end up going to small and regret it later

 

Consider the truck I listed. GMC Sierra 1500HD, lifted with a 4" lift and 35" tires. It has plenty of low end, enough where it has towed my truck on a flat trailer behind while passing grandma in the slow lanes on the highway. It's used every weekend for some odd-job towing tree spades, wood chippers or snowmobile trailers and we occasionally go mudding. There's plenty of low end grunt.

EDIT: His supporting modifications are long tube headers, glass packs (I'm not a fan of those but he is so all the power to him) for mufflers and a mail order Nelson tune. Nothing major really, and he's knocking on 380-400hp, and about 400-410lb-ft of torque all below 6000 rpms.

 

So you'd take that cam over the 210/218 .551/.551 112lsa in a DD 6.0?

 

well honestly.... i don't know what all those numbers for the cams mean. but yea. thats my list of things i want to do. but i have run into another problem. i didn't know that if you got long tube headers you gotta cut your cats off and i don't want to do that. i hate the way it sounds without them and the popping that most people around here get when you cut them off.

 

They wont fit the stock cats, but you can still have cats on, but not in the stock place. Get a big muffler and they wont pop.