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Old Aug 21, 2011 | 09:42 AM
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Certainy is! I think the OP was insulted by an earlier post but that can't be helped now....
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 11:10 AM
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Sounds like the OP is in a rush to me. Most of his combo is not bad, well the part he told us anyway.
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 11:21 AM
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Sorry, duration 236/245. and the valve lift is .625/.612, not .612/.624
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 01:21 PM
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Big cam, hard to tune.
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 05:51 PM
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Thats what I was thinking first but its throwing me off because I figured if it was the cam it would be more consistent
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 06:08 PM
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Thats what I was thinking first but its throwing me off because I figured if it was the cam it would be more consistent
It's very tough to tune a cam that big and when it isn't right it'll have you chasing all sorts of things. A friend of mine had such trouble he couldn't get it right with a mail order tune....he had to get it tuned on a dyno. His was a LE setup and we chased everything from bad guides/seals to valve float. A dyno tune solved his woes.....

Talk to your tuner and see if he can help and look for a local dyno tuner....

Good luck!
Old Aug 21, 2011 | 06:32 PM
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Re: 383 chuging

Originally Posted by bw_hunter
It's very tough to tune a cam that big and when it isn't right it'll have you chasing all sorts of things. A friend of mine had such trouble he couldn't get it right with a mail order tune....he had to get it tuned on a dyno. His was a LE setup and we chased everything from bad guides/seals to valve float. A dyno tune solved his woes.....

Talk to your tuner and see if he can help and look for a local dyno tuner....

Good luck!
I'll try that and see what I can come up with. I will let you know what I come up with, thanks a lot
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 09:51 PM
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Have you tried bypassing all the completely unnecessary ignition garbage.
I know back when I was a newb I chased all kinds of issues that ended up being a POS ignition "upgrade", going back to stock fixed it after I spent a lot of money on everything else.

To this day even with the car as modified as it is my best performance is with stock ignition. I put a different aftermarket ignition on for the spark based rev limiter and bypassing it at the track if anything made for a slight gain and certainly no loss.
Old Aug 23, 2011 | 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by 96capricemgr
Have you tried bypassing all the completely unnecessary ignition garbage.
I know back when I was a newb I chased all kinds of issues that ended up being a POS ignition "upgrade", going back to stock fixed it after I spent a lot of money on everything else.

To this day even with the car as modified as it is my best performance is with stock ignition. I put a different aftermarket ignition on for the spark based rev limiter and bypassing it at the track if anything made for a slight gain and certainly no loss.
I have msd obd2 distributor and opti, msd blaster coil on stock module, msd 8.5 mm wires, and I also have msd 6AL box but that is not installed. And how do you make a signature so people can see what I have without asking, I tried searching and finding it

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Old Aug 23, 2011 | 08:30 AM
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Click 'User CP', then click Edit Signature on the left.

To reiterate what Dwayne said, I also run a 100% stock ignition (with the exception of an MSD coil). There is very little benefit if any at all to spending the $$$ on high dollar aftermarket ignition components.
Old Aug 23, 2011 | 11:10 AM
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I'll take it to a tuner and get some data logs to help shed some light on the issue. Sunday night it just started idling low, when we first started it idle was set at 500 but was too low for the cam. We raised it to 900 to keep it running and sounding good and it was fine for about a week then started idling at around 500 again and the cam is starving itself
Old Aug 23, 2011 | 06:44 PM
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The MSD opti is particularly trouble prone, big step BACKWARDS from stock.
Old Aug 23, 2011 | 08:41 PM
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Re: 383 chuging

Originally Posted by 96capricemgr
The MSD opti is particularly trouble prone, big step BACKWARDS from stock.
I have a brand new stock opti but but the distributor housing is obd1 and I need obd2. Would it be worth just to try changing out the opti and still use the distributor housing that came with the msd opti, or are they not interchangeable?
Old Aug 27, 2011 | 07:23 PM
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Ok so dynno date is Monday. But after I posted this thread it started missing really bad along with idling low. I'm not opting out that the msd opti is junk but it is all brand new with 5 hours of running time so I'm thinking that maybe I fouled a plug when it was loading up. I naught new plugs but I'm out of town so can't change them till tomarrow night. I want it running like it was the first 4 hours before I take it to the tuner. What are your guys thoughts? Is there something else I should be trying if the new plugs don't cut it? I checked all wire connections and firing order and that didn't help
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