Tick Performance exaggerated performance claims
#61
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Tick doesn't grind cams unless something has changed in their product development in the last year or so. They hire out their "proprietary" grinds to companies like Comp and TSP who actually do the grinding, then Tick sells the cam
I don't mean to sound like a broken record or repeat parrot; but I really think Tick told you what you wanted to hear, or the salesman told you the first cam he remembered from the catalog. The almost exact same thing happened to me when TSP suggested a 220/224 .600/.600 112 for a square port head 408ci motor. I was dumb enough to buy the cam, but some members here talked me out of installing that and I was able to resell it. I had PatG custom spec a cam for me that is 236/240 .600/.600 114+4
Huge difference in a salesman selling me a cam he *thought* was ok and getting a real cam optimized for the setup
Get your flame suit on about the LS7 lifters. We do not like them around here; tons of documented failures. And we all cant be doing our lifters wrong. Lots of fails documented around the web too
I don't mean to sound like a broken record or repeat parrot; but I really think Tick told you what you wanted to hear, or the salesman told you the first cam he remembered from the catalog. The almost exact same thing happened to me when TSP suggested a 220/224 .600/.600 112 for a square port head 408ci motor. I was dumb enough to buy the cam, but some members here talked me out of installing that and I was able to resell it. I had PatG custom spec a cam for me that is 236/240 .600/.600 114+4
Huge difference in a salesman selling me a cam he *thought* was ok and getting a real cam optimized for the setup
Get your flame suit on about the LS7 lifters. We do not like them around here; tons of documented failures. And we all cant be doing our lifters wrong. Lots of fails documented around the web too
#62
Mod with training wheels
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I've attached my tune. I can't get the file to open (presumably I'd need HP Tuners software?), so I have no idea what it looks like. But I'm definitely interested to hear your constructive input on how the tune could be improved. At this point, in addition to solving the idle surging, I'd just like to see and feel some better torque and grunt from off-idle up to 3500-4k. I don't know if tune refinements can do much to accomplish that. But, since I am where I am, it doesn't hurt to try. Thanks much.
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#64
smokeshow thanks very much for the info. “Your calibration is untouched in almost all areas that deal with idle. The VE surface is also untouched, which gen 3 is particularly sensitive to at low speed.” What is VE surface and what does it do? (Forgive me, my tuning knowledge deals with brass…analog)
Thanks
#65
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You also had a "reputable and respected" tuner tune the truck and he, well.... didn't
So I personally am putting 0 merit on this installers accolades, but I don't know him or his work
VE is volumetric efficiency and adjustments made in the VE table change the fueling of the engine based on load/rpm/airflow. I do not know what the VE surface is, but it might be in relation to the 3D histogram that HPT generates to visualize the VE table
I am no tuner, I hire out my tunes. But I've read some things and seen some videos and dabbled in it enough to have blown up a motor. So you could say I know how to not tune
So I personally am putting 0 merit on this installers accolades, but I don't know him or his work
VE is volumetric efficiency and adjustments made in the VE table change the fueling of the engine based on load/rpm/airflow. I do not know what the VE surface is, but it might be in relation to the 3D histogram that HPT generates to visualize the VE table
I am no tuner, I hire out my tunes. But I've read some things and seen some videos and dabbled in it enough to have blown up a motor. So you could say I know how to not tune
#66
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#67
TECH Enthusiast
I don't know what part of the world you are in, but the Thorley headers I have on my Express van have held up better than the OEM manifolds which both cracked at ~60K miles. Added alot of torque in the low-midrange right where the engine spends 95% of its time. I put Thorley tri-ys on my old G20 van too when it had a 305. Gave that engine alot more torque as well. Cruising at 70 mph, went from downshifting to 3rd on many uphill pulls to holding overdrive up the same hills. The ones on the Express are CARB approved and I believe the ones they make for the 99-06 trucks are as well. They come with pipes that connect directly to the OEM cats. Tri-ys really help scavenge the cylinders in the low-midrange.
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