MyLS1Hauls

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My buddy and I recently installed my old XE 216/216 .538" 114 cam in his 02 5.3L truck and all I can say is WOW. That cam seems to have added more power to his truck than it did to my car. His only other mods are Dynomax muffler and no cats. The cam idles a little rough at stock idle, so we bumped it up to 700 in gear and it has a nice little lump to it. It pulls hard all the way to his 6000 rpm shift points. The nice thing about this cam is that it has faster ramps than the traditional Comp 216/220 cam and also has higher lift. He's running 26915 springs w/ stock pushrods.

really slow truck

daaaannng need to put that bad boy on the dyno

im sure it would LOVE some nice headers now too <img border="0" alt="[Fluffy]" title="" src="graemlins/fluffy.gif" />

216 in a 5.3L.... i like <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

<small>[ December 16, 2002, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: really slow truck ]</small>

Brandon Boomhauer

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does it need tuning or can it be dont with out?

MyLS1Hauls

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No, my buddy drove it for a few days w/out tuning. It did stall a few times on him though, but I think that could have been solved by drilling the TB hole a little bit, but we just used LS1 edit since we had it anyway. We havent put it on a wideband, but I suspect that its running a tad rich, by the odor of the talipipe.

Also, the truck seems to have retained its low rpm power, unlike w/ the LS6 cam. This cam was installed w/ a 110* ICL to keep the power down lower in the rev range.

Brad

BigTex

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Did your buddy have the LS6 cam in the truck before the 116 XE?

Richard

MyLS1Hauls

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BigTex:
<strong>Did your buddy have the LS6 cam in the truck before the 116 XE?

Richard</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, never would have let him do that <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
I was just saying that from what I've heard of the LS6 cam in trucks...not much low end torque due to the cam being retarded by 2-3 degrees and having a LSA of 116-117.

really slow truck

hmm yep, i think were gonna need a sound clip. want to hear a truck lope with one of those ****** *drooolllll* <img border="0" alt="[devil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

<small>[ December 16, 2002, 09:08 PM: Message edited by: really slow truck ]</small>

MyLS1Hauls

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Yeah, I'll post one this week. I'll lower the idle back down to 550 for ya <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

yellowls1truck

any idea on what gains this cam made? would it be a good cam for occasional nitrous use? do you need to repace any other valvetrain parts<springs, retainers, ect..>?

dutch 99 chevy

im wanting to put a cam in my truck this summer. is the cam yall put on give a good amount of power. also, is it still ok to pull with, travel with. i dont pull verry often, but i do sometimes. is any programing needed, all i have is the HPP3, would that be good enough.

-Zach