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Old Apr 26, 2010 | 09:10 PM
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just like it ask's can i still pull a car with a 4.8 and a tr220 cam with gears headers stall and tune?
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Old Apr 26, 2010 | 11:44 PM
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5.3 w/ trucker cam, LTs, and yank 3600. Trucks got 285/40/22 with 3.73 also.

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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 11:45 AM
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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 12:03 PM
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Yes, you can. Will it be fun, No.

Make sure you have a good transmission cooler. Not normally a big fan of the huge ones, but you might need one.
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With the right converter and gear it is possible. I wouldn't go with that much cam in a 4.8L motor. I would say LOW 21x/21x on duration if you were trying to pull very much with it.

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Originally Posted by 98mysticZ
just like it ask's can i still pull a car with a 4.8 and a tr220 cam with gears headers stall and tune?
how big is the stall? Do you have a tranny cooler?

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5.3 w/ trucker cam, LTs, and yank 3600. Trucks got 285/40/22 with 3.73 also.

Beautiful truck man
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Old May 3, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Jon@Texas-Speed
With the right converter and gear it is possible. I wouldn't go with that much cam in a 4.8L motor. I would say LOW 21x/21x on duration if you were trying to pull very much with it.

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jon could yall custom grind a cam to still be able to pull but have a lope and a bit more performance? BTW love yalls stuff... thats all i run in my car (408 gexas giant) and had the MS4 before that and love yalls stuff... was probably gonna call yall anyways... and i will go with 4.10's and like a 2800-3000 stall... its a daily but i still wanna have some fun with it...
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We can probably come up with something depending on what converter you end up with. You have to be very careful to not give up too much bottom-end with putting a cam in. Obviously the best bet would be a Magnacharger or some kind of forced induction but we all don't have the $5000 grand laying around to drop on one.

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Old May 6, 2010 | 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Jon@Texas-Speed
We can probably come up with something depending on what converter you end up with. You have to be very careful to not give up too much bottom-end with putting a cam in. Obviously the best bet would be a Magnacharger or some kind of forced induction but we all don't have the $5000 grand laying around to drop on one.

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yea i really wanted a magnacharger and will probably look at one around christmas time... so i might just stick with headers converter and a tune and see what i am gonna do .... BTW your texas giant cam in a 408... whats the normal timing for that motor? because at 16* total timing i made 484/462 weird i know but we put 6 more in it and its a completely diff beast now.. just wondering what we did wrong besides the tune but now at 22 i got no retard and think i could probably run a few more degrees and get it around 26-27?
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