Need Some Help - Vmax with Cam & Converter?
 

Hey guys, I have a 2007 Silverado ECSB the one with the really small short bed, its 4x4, and 6.0 Vmax. It has a 1.5" BL and a leveling kit and 33" tires. The bad part is that it still has the stock 3.73 gears rather than the 4.10 option. The truck now has a Volant intake, american racing headers with Y and high flow cats and a Magnaflow XL muffler, and a custom tune. The truck went 15.0 @ 92mph in the 1/4 with 2.3 sixty foot times. That was with the stock 20's and stock tires... it is probably a couple tenths slower now Id imagine... Here are my questions - Can I do a cam swap and a new converter and the truck be faster? and pull harder? My focus is not the drag strip, but would it still be faster down the 1/4 mile WITHOUT changing my gears? I just dont want to do the whole gear thing... but I do want more power when I stomp on it and it downshifts and takes off when driving around town... I usually run around really slow trying not to kill my mileage... but when I stomp it I want it to pull harder than it does now. What cam could I get? What converter? Yank 3000 stall? I've asked this same question in a couple other forums but I wanted to get the opinions of the people here. Thanks alot for all the help!

Yea you need a mild cam a yank 3000 stall... Mabe a thunder racing 220?

I've been reading some stuff about the new trucks and their cams with the VVT... is a cam a bad idea because of all this? does it affect reliability? What do you have to do different? new lifters, pushrods and springs?

Oh yea... I hadn't thought of that... I actually don't know that much about the new VVT stuff... But then the tr220 prob wouldn't work... Try the 3000 stall first, it will already wake it up a bit. The bigger stall will also reduce the shift drop by about 200-300 rpm...

id think gears would be cheaper. unless you want to upgrade to a tru-trac front and rear.
just the lifter swap was 300.00, 300-400 cam, 120 push rods, 250 patriot duals vs 260 for gears an install kit (about 140)