DCR pump gas limit
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
Regarding the better than LT4 cam question, I can't comment on better but I can say I had decent results with Vortec heads and Comps XR276HR cam. Built with 10:1 SCR and 8:1 DCR, it required premium fuel although it handled all the timing needed and had excellent street manners. It even managed a 105 mph trap speed in my 3700 lb IROC.
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
Regarding the better than LT4 cam question, I can't comment on better but I can say I had decent results with Vortec heads and Comps XR276HR cam. Built with 10:1 SCR and 8:1 DCR, it required premium fuel although it handled all the timing needed and had excellent street manners. It even managed a 105 mph trap speed in my 3700 lb IROC.
The CC503 has been so popular with the LT1 crowd, that many are up for grabs cheap on the classified boards.
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
110/106 can be interesting trying to tune with a factory ECM.
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
Using what ECM?
The forum is filled with threads from guys who idle like crap and can't tune it out, or have hesitations on throttle transitions. Then you've got the open loop idle patches which help some folks.
Then you've got people who's stuff runs like crap but think it's cool. Lots of youtube videos of that posted on the forum.
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The forum is filled with threads from guys who idle like crap and can't tune it out, or have hesitations on throttle transitions. Then you've got the open loop idle patches which help some folks.
Then you've got people who's stuff runs like crap but think it's cool. Lots of youtube videos of that posted on the forum.
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Gonna go with a carb. Fuel system from the 97 vortec motor was shot and most injectors were melted from engine heat and old age. Going in a 80s monte carlo ss. Gonna use the 1406 eddie carb that's on the old motor for now and probably get something else later
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I'm glad you're not using the L31 induction system. If you did, all this stuff we're discussing wouldn't even matter. The Vortec intake doesn't let anything breathe above 5500 rpm.
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
Do you already have the Hotcam? If so, I'd use it. Degree it in at the 105-106 ICL like was discussed earlier, and you'll make within 10-20 hp of what you'd do with either the XR270 or XR276 cams, maybe even more than the 270 cam.
All these guys badmouthing the Hotcam have not used it. Or they never set the motor up and tuned it correctly.
All these guys badmouthing the Hotcam have not used it. Or they never set the motor up and tuned it correctly.
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Anyone here have the specs for the LT cam? Advertised and .050" numbers. ICL (installed straight up) and LSA
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Re: DCR pump gas limit
.050": 218/228
112 LSA, 109 ICl straight up
.525"/.525" with 1.6's
VERY easy on the valvetrain
It was GM's roadracing cam for some "stockish" LT1 class, thus the late ICL and easy lobes.
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Easy lobes...certainly. As a comparison, the 276 is 224 @ .050". There's something to be said for that. Not really knocking the LT4 cam other than to say it's pretty old. As for easy on the valve train, that's plain to see.
Now my XFI cam has a 274 adv and 224 @ .050. And we know how those lobes are on equipment (although with my little pedestrian build, the added stresses don't amount to much.
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