ObliviouS

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?

GMCtrk

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

I am going with the Vinci 062 cam.

ObliviouS

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

00ChevyScott

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Use the search up top man.

InchUp

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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.

GMCtrk

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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

InchUp

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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.

GMCtrk

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

ObliviouS

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.

Atomic

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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.