have a question on a camshafts

Pick the one u want, then go two sizes smaller! Hah. Seriously. I love this forum and all the extremely intelligent people here. But for a heavy truck with a small motor go a little small on the shaft. Keep in mind who your asking when posting here. Most of us want max power and don't mind sacrifices in drivability. So your going to get suggestions for 240 ish @050 cams with 600 plus lift. But is that best for your daily driver? No. Will it dyno higher? Yes. Will you wish you hadn't? Yes. With that said. No stall. 3.42 or 73,s on a 4.8 look for something 218/224. In the 550 range with 114 or 115. You'll get torque and drivability with very minimal compromises.

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Originally Posted by MEANGENE75

Pick the one u want, then go two sizes smaller! Hah. Seriously. I love this forum and all the extremely intelligent people here. But for a heavy truck with a small motor go a little small on the shaft. Keep in mind who your asking when posting here. Most of us want max power and don't mind sacrifices in drivability. So your going to get suggestions for 240 ish @050 cams with 600 plus lift. But is that best for your daily driver? No. Will it dyno higher? Yes. Will you wish you hadn't? Yes. With that said. No stall. 3.42 or 73,s on a 4.8 look for something 218/224. In the 550 range with 114 or 115. You'll get torque and drivability with very minimal compromises.

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x1000 you want a cam that make tons of bottom end, not alot of overlap, good vacuumm. Remember, its your DAILY DRIVER, you don't want a cam that "Pulls like no other up top"

I daily drive my truck with a big cam. Drivabilty is all in your tune. 20+mpg with 4.56 gears. Think you could handle that?

Again I'm not trying to stear you away from getting a custom grind but, if you're runnin a stock headed motor and just want a sweet bump in performance and sound, an off the shelf cam will do you just fine. Eventually all these "custom grind" cams will be of the shelf cams. There are only so many variations people can come up with to go in a stock motor.

To the original poster...turn you pm's on and I'll send you info on my cam

on the shelf cams are just what they are on the shelf, do they perform? yes they do, do they perform well yes, why cause someone somewhere used this cam and it worked well for them, now if a shelf cam would list all mods to make this a proven cam then it would be worth the wild in buying a shelf cam, but sorry they dont, thus we have to search numerous sites to find out what shelf cam would work and work well with our setups and what we want reguardless if its a daily driver or a weekend warrior. i am not knocking shelf cams cause they are proven cams, but its hard to decide whats what if theres no history of that cam working unless like i mentioned you search your butt off on internet sites to find a setup close to yours, the easy way out, custom grind, at lease the person who is specting your cam out will have all knowledge of what you want and what you have in your truck. which will make it proven across the board... pretty damn simple aint it :)


not all cams ( shelf ) works the same even if you do have the same mods ;)

thanks guys im think im just gonna go with a custom grind cam or might keep looking around see what i might ended up doing