Hey everyone.
I've been doing a lot of searching on Performance Trucks and also on GMFS in the cam sticky...but just wanted to get some of your guys' opinions.
I'm very (and by very I mean within the next couple of days) close to pulling the trigger on a cam and stall. I've gone back and forth between a variety of combinations, and someone on GMFS tipped me off to get a custom grind cam from BEI. After thinking about that...I would love to do a custom cam, but I've got to assume that the blank is about $150 and then about $350 to grind with a $500 tune. Being that the 5.3 is such a popular engine I've got to think that the out of the box cams are going to give me more than what I'm looking for, plus I've already got the auto cal from blackbear so I can't justify paying all that money for it to have it tuned on the dyno. Probably can't go wrong either way...I know most are very happy with Justin and his tunes for cams.
So...for what I do and what I've researched...the TSP 220r seems like a very good choice that suits my needs and pairs up nice with a 3200 stall. I've read that in some instances people have run 3600 with this cam, but that is just not something I am interested in doing I don't think.
For those of you that don't know, I'm on a 6" lift with 20x12s and 33s....4.11 Yukons, Doug Thorley Long Tubes. Going to get the Tru Cool 40K as well.
I don't tow (often), so I don't want to completely lose my bottom end, but even with this cam/stall I think being on 33s and 4.11s will help a lot.
Truck is a DD...mostly backroad driven...but sees the sand dunes up at Silver Lake about every other weekend.
My question comes into play with: what size stall converter should I be looking at? I've been looking at Circle D. I understand that the bigger the stall, the tighter it will be.
One guy on Performance Trucks was saying that the 278mm was not a true 3200 and shouldn't be considered a "high performance stall", so I was thinking about maybe going to the 265mm single disk.
I don't want to be too loose, but I definitely want to pair the correct stall size with this cam. I'm assuming I don't need to spend the extra $300 on a triple disk 'verter..but maybe someone can chime in.
Am I on track? Circle D, Yank, TSI....???
Thanks all
I've been doing a lot of searching on Performance Trucks and also on GMFS in the cam sticky...but just wanted to get some of your guys' opinions.
I'm very (and by very I mean within the next couple of days) close to pulling the trigger on a cam and stall. I've gone back and forth between a variety of combinations, and someone on GMFS tipped me off to get a custom grind cam from BEI. After thinking about that...I would love to do a custom cam, but I've got to assume that the blank is about $150 and then about $350 to grind with a $500 tune. Being that the 5.3 is such a popular engine I've got to think that the out of the box cams are going to give me more than what I'm looking for, plus I've already got the auto cal from blackbear so I can't justify paying all that money for it to have it tuned on the dyno. Probably can't go wrong either way...I know most are very happy with Justin and his tunes for cams.
So...for what I do and what I've researched...the TSP 220r seems like a very good choice that suits my needs and pairs up nice with a 3200 stall. I've read that in some instances people have run 3600 with this cam, but that is just not something I am interested in doing I don't think.
For those of you that don't know, I'm on a 6" lift with 20x12s and 33s....4.11 Yukons, Doug Thorley Long Tubes. Going to get the Tru Cool 40K as well.
I don't tow (often), so I don't want to completely lose my bottom end, but even with this cam/stall I think being on 33s and 4.11s will help a lot.
Truck is a DD...mostly backroad driven...but sees the sand dunes up at Silver Lake about every other weekend.
My question comes into play with: what size stall converter should I be looking at? I've been looking at Circle D. I understand that the bigger the stall, the tighter it will be.
One guy on Performance Trucks was saying that the 278mm was not a true 3200 and shouldn't be considered a "high performance stall", so I was thinking about maybe going to the 265mm single disk.
I don't want to be too loose, but I definitely want to pair the correct stall size with this cam. I'm assuming I don't need to spend the extra $300 on a triple disk 'verter..but maybe someone can chime in.
Am I on track? Circle D, Yank, TSI....???
Thanks all
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