I'm such a freaking *****. I just bought my header install parts tonight and I'm already thinking about cammin' it.

I'm looking for something that'll give a pretty nice lopey idle... It needs to be streetable, and daily drivable. I'm almost thinking hotcam, but it's kinda overdone. I'm looking at more of a 224/230 cam I think.

It'll be going in a '97 Z28 M6. The mods at the time of installation will include:
Hooker LTs, ORY, Hooker Catback, K&N FIPK, 3.73s. The car will probably be pretty close to 120k when I do the cam swap, and I'm not looking to spin a rod. I won't be beating on the car too much but I plan on taking it to the track a time or two.

 

plan on main and rod bearings too

 

Not likely, if he does it right and keeps it a clean install and doesn't let any crap get in the engine. But then again you never know, "some" have had their problems after a cam install. The Hotcam is nice for the money. And there are a few others in that range that preform well too. But just don't expect alot of lope if it's tuned right and the idle is where it should be. It helps to keep the idle down a little if some lope is what your looking for, but you can only go so far.

 

Well, if you wanna keep taking my advice

Go with the cc503 - 224/230 XE grind. Real nice cam, I was very happy with it for 3 years and went pretty damn fast on it.

 

What kind of budget do you have to work with? A cam swap can tally up real quick. The Hotcam kit is probably one of the better bang for the buck ways to go.

 

You should get a GM 847. It will lope lope lope.... then Kaboom.

 

eh less than a grand IDK we'lll see... Want to have some money started so it doesn't blow up on me

 

The CC305 has a very good lopey idle, and has good street manners.

Check out this link. It has a TON of cam sounds in LT1's. Everything ranging from mild to wild.
http://www.lt1engine.com/soundlib/cam.html

 

The key to making the bearings last is to not rev it over 6000...EVER...i know firsthand

 

If you do the cam better do like the last gut said and change the main and rod bearings. I had an le1 cam w/le2 ported heads, and made 397rwhp then two weeks later. Kaboom. rod bearing.

 

"ah hell one time at the track ain't gonna kill it"

*vroo--BOOM!*

 

No guts no glory! Besides the fact that plenty of guys spin their stock shortblock to 6500 with no problems.

 

I never had a problem from 98 to 03 spun it to 6500 every pass every weekend.....over 1000 passes

Keep it a clean install

 

FWIW my 19k mi stock shortblock lasted 1000 miles w/le2.2 cam and le2 heads spinning to 6400.....in the end your gonna spin it to whatever YOU want to but all i'm saying is be prepared to rebuild

IT IS YOUR MONEY

 

Sorry to hear that. Mine spins to 6400 also with 29k on the stock shortblock. No problems so far, but only I have about 1k on this set-up. As far as being ready to rebuild if something goes wrong, that goes without saying. Even your DD can drop the trans without warning and cost you $1500, give or take $500. But like I said, just cause you mod doesn't mean it's going to take a crap in 1k. It could be on start up or 80k later, who knows?