My cam thread

[randomhero]

speaking from experience it gets old sometimes daily driving a 224/224 on 112 lsa with a 3600 torque converter.

The converter actually made it tougher to drive as there was less load on the engine at low RPM. I was able to tune the truck great with just the cam and a 3000 torque converter, but when I swapped to the ss3600 it made it much harder to get it to idle.

If I could do it over I would have gone with a tr220. I don't think people are running any better times with bigger cams in a 5.3L without dropping serious money on heads, intake, etc.

BlueCajun has run some amazing times with the tr220.

[Frenchy]

Bought the one thunder550 had for sale
220/222-580/580-114 cam, comp XE-R lobes

[11 6.2]

Congrats!! I was actually about to tell u to look at that one!!

[molitor]

that stage IIhotcam would be like an ls2 cam on roids! holy cow, yeah, you picked a great cam

[Frenchy]

Wanted one that would work well with and without boost, seen that one in the Classifieds and jumped on it.

[phantom405]

I know you already bought your cam and it looks a good choice, but just to shed some light on the came you had picked out. Not too terribly big. I'm running a g5x3 in my 5.3 of course I have some nice heads but..I've also run a 232/236 .600 112lsa in a bonestock 5.3. Your daily drivabilty is all in your tune.
I drove the 232/236 with a stock converter and cut the same 60' as I did with my smaller cams and also got 20+mpg.
I now have the g5x3 (236/240 .615 112lsa) with an edge 3800 9.5" converter and it's very docile around town. No surging, no annoyances. But I have a badass tuner. Drivability is all in your tune