I just had a cam installed and thinking about swapping it out already. My wife wants something bigger. It made 391/379. Its a Compcam and the specs are, 224/230 with a lsa of 114.

When I talked to the shop I explained I was looking for a nice lope without drivability issues so my wife wouldn't complain. I'm just looking for some advice for those of you with bigger cams and how you like it?

 

if its for the ss your going to want a higher stall if you go with a bigger cam.

 

Why does she want a bigger cam? Sound? More power? What's the int/ext lift on the cam?

 

A lot of times the more conservative cams end up performing almost as well as the bigger ones. There are guys in ext cab 6.0's running 12's with the same converter you have and cams that are only a HAIR bigger. They also dont have compression thats quite as high as yours with that LS2 and are probably making less power. I'm curious what it is about this cam that makes you want to change it out already too.

If its the sound you want get a cut out and drop the idle a little , it'll lope nice and hard when you crank up the volume.

Do you have a 2wd or Awd SS?

 

It is a 2wd and the lift is 581/592.

Today I went back to the shop and had them drop the idle alittle. The sound seems to be growing on her. She loves the aggressive sound but the power isn't so important. Personally I want both, lol. I'm pretty sure she can live with it but now I'm thinking of using this excuse to get what I want.

Any thoughts on the MS3 or something similar? I was told it was the most aggressive I could go without drivability issues. Specs:

237/242
.603/.609
112 lsa

 

That cam is kinda Big IMO. I have a 227/235 in my 6.0L and Im shifting at 6700 with a 3700 stall.

 

Yea thts a very big cam for a daily driver. You'll need a looser converter and depending on how it's driven it could get sloppy.

 

I say you run it for a while. I'm willing to bet it lopes harder than youre giving it credit for right now, and its probably clean as hell. I have a 222/226 and mine is definitely noticable, but I have my idle turned way down to almost 600

Again, toss an E cut out in there and it would sound like a beast at Idle.

I'd also run it at the track before you decide you left a ton on the table performance wise. When you say bolt ons I assume you have headers too right?

That cam you tossed out there is too much for a DD IMO also. It would be sloppy on the street and your gas mileage would really suffer.

 

I have 230/236 .610/.610 @.050 with 110 dialed to 104 degrees untuned and drivablility aint as bad as some people would make it out to be... i have it idling about 650 and it counts a lil bit

 

This is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about.

Cam only Trailblazer SS exhaust clip, catless longtubes with 2 mufflers and electric cutout - YouTube