Got a question for all you guys here with the 224/230 cam. My questions is, how many of you ran this cam on the stock PCM? For how long? How well did it run? I don't plan on running that long with a stock tune, but I will be running for a little while. The reason I didn't have it done while I was doing the swap was because I didn't wanna introduce too many variables in case I have problems.

Thanks guys

 

I have that cam. I never ran it on the stock tune though. Combination Motorsports told me it would run ok with the stock tune.

I know what you mean about having too many variables. When I bought my car, it wasn't running. I built a new motor and added a ton of mods at the same time so I had a ton of things that could go wrong. I was worried that changing the PCM would cause one more thing that could go wrong. I talked to Ion at Madz28.com about my concerns and he convinced me to use his tune the first time I started it. I couldn't have been happier. The car fired right up and ran great using his tune. I would recommend him to anyone. I plan on doing my own tuning eventually but it was nice to have a reliable base tune (and for a great price).

Dustin

 

I run a similar cam, a 224/232 grind from SLP. Ran it on the stock tune for 3 weeks....ran fine to me! Never even threw a code...I had Ion do some tuning, and the engine became more responsive, idled better and picked up 4 MPG...now I get 28 hwy 23 city. You'll be fine!

 

Runs and idles like crap! (surging and stubles in low rpm and idle)

At stoplights I had to keep the rpms up or it would die.

It's drivable but not for long periods of time.

 

Im driving mine with the stock tune atm, its not bad...the open headers are terrible tho lol

 

I ran on the stock tune for a few months with mine before I finally got pcmforless tuning. the car ran real stong still, but now that it is tuned the car feels a lot smoother through the entire rpm range, it idles better (it was pretty choppy before and would surge), and gas mileage improved about 4 or 5 mpg average. I never really had problems with it though on stock programming