i am in the middle of building up a 350 TPI with stock heads. the car is a daily driver with a 700R4 tranny and a 10 bolt rear with 3.42 gears. i'm looking for low to mid 13's with the car when i get done. other mods include CAI, Headers, high flow cat, 3" Pipe and flowmaster along with free TPI mods, and aftermarket ignition. the tranny will have a Trans-go shift kit and a B&M megashifter. i need to choose a cam that will work with the computer, not kill my mileage, and get the car into those 13's. i was thinking something along the lines of a compucam but havent heard anything about them. any help would be appreciated. thanx

tony

 

I recommend against compucam from my personal experience and listening to others...

We need to know what year your car is. (engine)

 

i'm guessing 1990 350 tpi???just a guess,lol but i've heard great things about the lt4 hot cam...

 

The issue is if its roller or not


and whether or not its SD helps as well.

 

There is probably a 99.99% chance it is roller if stock. I was looking for the same thing earlier, but I ended up sticking with my stock LT4 cam, leaving room for improvement later. I've been told to look into a zz4 or similar lingenfelter cams, same with comp cams. I think all of the cams mentioned had about 112lsa and under around .500 lift. Your stock heads will limit your selection. Of course the LT4 hot cam is a popular choice.

Another question is.. how deep into the 13s do you want? You can get there fairly easily with that engine. If you can, get a friend to run some combos through desktop dyno.

 

well i'd ideally like to get a 13 flat, but i think that may be out of my range seeing as how i want to get decent mileage and also keep the stock heads, for now at least. i was told a while back that the LT4 cam had too much lift for the stock L98 castings. whats the max lift i can put on those heads? isn't .500 the limit? anyone tried out the crane powermax cams? thanx for all the help.

 

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