I went to check out their website... www.LSracingchips.com and got nothing. They still around? Or is the domain status down? They were located in NE ohio i believe which isnt far from me. I was hoping to talk to them about a base tune for my new combo next spring, something to get me started but i have no problems with attempting this on my own

I just talked to Jamy (owner of the place who has been with me every step of the way with me and my fireturd). hmm I dunno
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ill tell him that he has a potential customer.

He also did my base tune on my car. Hey let me ask ya. How has he been with ya every step of the way with your car? mail tunes? or did you go to his shop? If he did it mail tunes how and what did you use to get the data too him and how good is he at editing you current tune to come up with the correct tune? I got all my tuning stuff but need to take out my motor AGAIN then I will resume trying to learn but just in case I go ahead and send him my data log..how good was he?

Also when I went to his site about a month ago I too came up with the same and emailed him and his reponse was that he has to much work with dyno tunes that he has decided to stop doing mail order tunes because he had no time to devote to that Says its not fair to his current in house customers.
But he also did say that he will still take care of he past amil tune customers but not taking on any new ones. You probably know him well as I just email him for time to time and have talked with him on the phone about twice. So you may be able to put in a good word for Orr89RocZ

I first did just get a mail order tune from him when i was internally stock L98 and slapped the HSR on there. Then I was thinking H/C....He pointed me in the right direction and before I knew it I made the 7 and a half hour trip to ohio for a tune. I also went back up there when the engine was rebuilt and we did a tune on there again. Worth every penny though. Jamy does not stop until the job is done.

well if he does dyno tunes still, i may be able to get the car somewhat driveable to take over there and let him do some fine tuning on the dyno

but i also got a local shop here that will let me on the dyno for however long i want and i can easily make changes on there with timing and PE enrichment or adjust the MAF tables as i see fit. I'm pretty confident i can pull this off but getting the part throttle daily driver stuff gets me abit worried

I googled them and nothing. Anyone have a phone number for them?

I was told he is getting out of the game of mail order tunes and focuses more on the shop and dyno tunes.

that is correct. he took the site down and no longer does mail order tuning. he will still do retunes for any previous customers.
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bring it on over. i want to see the car anyways. we're only around an hour from you, just down 76 to akron. we dropped a 383 motor into a white 87 GTA yesterday at the shop.

i may bring it out to you guys..that be awesome to meet everyone and get some good numbers.

But i have a shop here too that will let me use the dyno and do some tuning so if i can get it to them i'll have it tuned pretty good. But we will see. if i struggle at tuning, then i'll look for help

well even if you don't want it tuned, bring it on out in the spring. do a search for ravenna, ohio... that's where i am.

I'll be coming back up there sometime when its warmer....trying to get the xr288 cam in the fireturd before the end of the 08 season....i want 11's so bad!!

bring it back on up. it'll take us no time to do a cam swap. i want to see how the car runs. last time i saw it, we pulled the motor out of it before he rebuilt it for you. today at the shop he was showing me dyno runs from your car. we were comparing them to the white gta we're working on right now. your car NA makes more power then this gta does with a 150 shot. we dropped the motor back in with a new eagle 383 kit though.

WHAAAAAT? My car had a tranny that was SCREWED! and a stock converter! The best I remember my car did 330rwhp and around 340 rwtq
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and 2.5 inch dynomax exhaust

well i guess technically it was pretty close. the gta had a more lopsided power curve to it. your car is pretty even with hp and torque from the hsr. the other car has stock heads/cam/intake/manifolds. pretty much everything that i've seen on it is bone stock right down to the air filter. your car did make right around the power #'s you mentioned. the gta made 294/434 at the tires with a 150 shot and the dyno tune. it probably would have made more but with the juice it went way fat from too big of a fuel jet. i'm trying to make similar #'s to yours with my 355 hsr motor.

Well power numbers arent anything. A guy on here had a vs carb setup with xr282 cam and is running 12.1X at 110mph. THat is the tgt ET i am looking for with the xr276 cam. What combo are you running and what combo are you looking at?

i'm running a 355 with the lt4 hotcam and the hsr custom tuned by jamy. my exhaust is holding me back pretty bad right now. i'm also using the stock stamped 1.5 rockers at the moment. come income tax time i think i'm going to redo the entire exhaust system. right now i have 2460 headers, stock modified y pipe, 2 1/2 hollow cat converter, 2 1/2 flowmaster exhaust. if all goes as planned i'm stepping up to the 2210 LT's ceramic coated by jet hot, custom y pipe, and a good 3 inch catback... probably either hooker or flowmaster.

i'm wanting to go with a way more aggressive/bigger cam come spring time. haven't really looked at what i want to move up to, i know i want something bigger. i don't think i'll even make 320 rwhp out of the current combo and the goal is 350 rwhp and a mid 12 second pass with the current 355 and heads.

what heads do you have? hotcam should make 350whp with good exhaust/tune and good heads

i'm shooting for 375whp thru the auto with afr 195's on a 355. Cam i'm trying to get is a custom grind, makes power to 6400rpms or so. its gonna rip but be tricky to get low part throttle and idle tune right

I LOVE the Hooker catback...wish I had that instead of my Magnflow...only good thing about Magnaflow is that not alot of thirdgen's in my area have it. But Hooker sounds basass...
Well, if my money situation is good, I have the 276hr cam....dont know if itll work that well with L98 heads though. I could sell it to ya cheap cuz u did help out with the rebuild and you are as excited about my car as i am. Just an option.
I'm just doing the $150 Hedman 1 5/8 Longtube headers. I read that 1 5/8 and 1 3/4 isnt much of a difference. Anything has to be better than my Edelbrock TES headers. Those things are only 2.5" collectors, every other headers, shorty or longtube, is 3".
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Thought you said you were going for the xr288 or the 294hr grind? Or are you just going to modify one of those grinds a lil bit?

L98 heads (aluminum or iron with some bowl work) will be fine with the 276hr cam..thats as big a cam you should run on stock heads.


and i will do the 236/242 288HR cam if i go with the 383, but i'm pretty sure i'm gonna stick with a 355 for now. I still havent called the machine shop to see how much clearancing will be needed with that stroke, and how much it will cost me

OOO forgot ab that lil detail.... I hope i dont have any clearance problems when I do that cam install

yeah if i do a 383, i'd like to get the H beam stroker rods from eagle as i hear they fit well with standard base circle cams. plus they are strong and at about 375 for a set, thats not a bad deal. i still want forged pistons for nitrous and cast crank just cuz it will hold 500whp on spray i think

I'm just looking to do a 100 shot of nitrous end of this year with the xr288 cam. I'm pretty sure I have those rods but i gotta double check. I should be ok with a 100 shot on hyperneumatics right?

i have the 113 vette heads, with tons of work done to them. 18 hours of porting and polishing, bigger valves machined in, the valves are manley stainless race valves with a 30 degree backcut, 3 angle valve job, zz9 springs good to .550 lift

Oh you are already set for a cam.

oh wow, then i'd go one step up with the cam. the 503/276hr cam is nice cam and will give you 350whp but abit larger wouldnt hurt

Thinking of the 290hr cam? aka the CC 306

naw...thats abit big with too much overlap and exhaust duration. i was thinking 230/236 the 282HR

I was just throwing out the offer as a favor to him, but its up to him.

i appreciate the offer. i was actually looking at the 282HR or another cam. here is a link to the other cam.

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...8&autoview=sku

the 2nd cam is only a magnum grind, not sure how good those are compare to the extreme. but i like the fact that it's a single pattern cam with a powerband right where i want it. i already have the hsr ready to go to 6500 and a 2500 stall converter.

magnums from what i've seen show slightly less agressive lobes but are easier to control the valvetrain and still make good power. Alittle older tech but proven performers. CC306 is tried and true and uses less aggressive lobes than the magnum lobes, with a wider LSA and split duration. there are quite a few LT1 cars hitting near 380-400whp with the cc306 on 355/383's with good heads. i think the magnums would work well

which do you think would be better for my car? i'm looking for all out power. i don't drive the car all that much on the street, maybe 8-10 times a week. that's why i was going to switch to a bigger cam and go from the 112 lsa down to the 110.

if i go with the magnum cam i'll have to put on new valve springs which isn't a big deal.

That may not be anywhere near enough spring for these cams. I run the 276 HR and I had to use 0.600 lift 1.25 single springs, shimmed a TON (like 80 thousandths of shims, to get them to 1.750 installed height), and they are still a little bit on the light side. A 1.25 spring is really not going to control the valves well. I am going to upgrade to larger dual springs because my 276hr cam is in a 327 w/ aftermarket heads and Iit will see some rpms.

dont skimp on springs.... for good cams you'lll need a good spring. most of the XE grinds that will rev over 5800 rpms will want a strong spring in there. you'll need atleast 130lbs on the seat at the installed height, something around 320-350 open pressure, and a spring for .600 lift. The higher rev'ers and more aggressive lobes like XFI grinds and similar will need Beehives. Some need the expensive 400 buck comp 921 springs with over 140lbs seat pressure. manley makes a nice beehive with 150lbs seat pressure.

If your looking for all out power, a custom grind would work best. if your heads have extensive work and have a nice exhaust/intake ratio, then a cam with just 4-6 degrees of intake/exhaust duration split will be best. not sure where your peak flow is for thos L98 heads but my guess is they will peak at .550 lift, so keep cam lift in that range.

the 282HR roller from comp is nice cam. lunati voodo 60122 isnt bad, abit bigger with more duration split tho. 231/239. that be NASTY in a 355.

The custom grind i was hoping to pick up if i went with a 355 would be more like a 230/234, revs out to 6500 and has made 410whp on LT1's

W/ my 276 HR, and my cheapo Pioneer 600 lift springs, I measured them on the bench as 130 closed, 325 open. I had to shim the hell out of these 1.25 single springs to get that much pressure though. I wound up with about 80 thou to coil bind. The specs are okay per comp but they recommended a bigger dual spring. I assume those would control valve harmonics a lot better. Even though I am okay on paper I am terrified to RPM the motor w/ the little weeny 1.25 springs.

i would be too. i was gonna run that cam or a hotcam using manley 1.25 springs that had 130lbs seat and 330 or so open pressure. Most ppl that i talked to say it would be fine.

My AFR heads have LS1 style valves...dual 1.29 inch with 135lbs seat and i forget the open but its somewhere over 320 which is fine for hydro rollers. I am debating whether to run it with the aggressive cam i had in mind, or just bite the beehive bullet

well maybe i'll look into a custom grind then. the car is basically just my toy, so all out power is the main goal. i've been thinking about the beehive springs when the time comes, a local buddy of mine runs them on his 383 miniram motor and loves them.

so far i've had no trouble at all with the springs i have now and the hotcam. i've ran this motor to 7k 3 times with no issues. i run it to 6500 on a regular basis and have had no issues.

stock rockers, stock pushrods, stock lifters, no rev kit, stock crank, stock rods, hyper pistons. me and jamy built the motor ourselves in my garage from the bare block up. we checked all clearances to make sure everything was within spec.

i was messing around with desktop dyno 03 edition today since i had nothing else to do, so i started trying out the different cams with a setup pretty close to mine.

355, my heads, 660 cfm tunnel ram intake, lt headers with mufflers (haven't bought yet), 9.7:1 CR. these are the #'s i got with each cam. and at the bottom the ramp rate for each cam except the lt4 hotcam.

lt4 hotcam
444 - 6k
429 - 5k

282xr
459 - 6k
432 - 5k

288xr
466 - 6.5k
429 - 5k

294xr
475 - 6.5k
424 - 5k

280hr
456 - 6k
437 - 5k

286hr
467 - 6.5k (makes 466 at 6k)
439 - 5k

ramp rates:
282xr - 2.75
288xr - 2.80
294xr - 2.73

280hr - 2.73
286hr - 2.87

interesting comparison. Most real world results that i've seen with the hotcam are not as impressive as simulators think. Most hotcammed Lt1's will dyno 320-330whp. cc503 276hr cammed cars are near 330-340, just a tad more than the hotcam. bigger cam like the 282hr has made 350-360 on some cars, just like the cc306 cam.

I've seen the same thing

there was no exact file for the hotcam, so i had to put in all the info i could to just get it real close. the other cams had the exact comp cams info for them from the company.

i figured you guys would like to see the info though. i'm still deciding between the 282xr and the 286hr magnum. the 286hr looks like the cam i'll probably go with though.

with either one, i dont think you will be dissappointed. difference of probly 5-7hp if that i'm willing to bet. Each of those cams will get the most out of those heads and intake.

i found this when i was still looking for the next cam for my car Attached Thumbnails

anyone have a phone number i need to contact these guys?

lsracing@live.com

email thats all i have

I have Jamys phone number. I had to talk to him awhile back and left like 4 voicemails with no response. I guess he really is just that busy with in house tunes.

that and he finally finished his LS powered TA. him and his wife also had a baby about a month ago, he's really busy right now.

even busier than before? holy. crap.