3800 Cam which needs the least tunning/messing

[Royalgtp]

Been thinking about giving my engine a little more life now that I got back my oil sample report from blackstone labs.....all turned out great for 117k mile engine.


I was toying w the idea of adding a cam with new timing chain, springs, etc......


Anyway, what is the least picky cam as far as tunning and always needing to adjust things.


I just dont want to be constantly tuning and all that crap that I use to do...to busy these days..

Thinking VS cam...

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[SaturdaysGS]

VS seems to meet your criteria perfectly from what I've read and was told..

 

[phat_ridegt]

vs will require the least tuning...you will need to tune the trims once, and it seems to stay pretty close. a friend of mine has it, and it seems to be keeping in tune from where i left it. if you are going to get heavier springs, you may want to just go to the xp..i dont have to mess with the tune very often at all. if i did, i could just use an afc, i dont, but i could.

i honestly think once you feel the vs, you will wish you had the xp. but the answer to your questions will be the VS for sure.

 

[Kyle]

yeah I was thinking VS or S1X

 

[00 GTP Debadged]

My S1X has done pretty good. The only tuning I have done was a VE tune and tuned the Lq4.


Randy

 

[CoolGTX]

all cams(aftermarket) no matter what, need tuning, of some sort. You want plug and play, rockers are for you. A Cam is Not plug and play no matter which one it is.

 

[Sinister Drag Designs]

very true, tho even rockers can use a little tweeking to get the most out of them

 

[SaturdaysGS]

But again, he wants to be able to tune it, and not really have to worry about it. If its tuned for safety and not balls to the wall and left as is for a while without scanning or adjusting everyday, a VS will be perfect.

 

[Sinister Drag Designs]

Originally posted by SaturdaysGS@Oct 25 2006, 05:40 PM
But again, he wants to be able to tune it, and not really have to worry about it. If its tuned for safety and not balls to the wall and left as is for a while without scanning or adjusting everyday, a VS will be perfect.

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if your not tuning a VS for max power why wouldnt you put in rockers for the ease and just about the same gains to a point
VS 's are supposed to get you 20-25hp, that is after a good tune, so a less dialed in tunemight net you what 15-20hp......is that not the gain from a set of 1.9s almost exactly.....

i still chuckle at thethought of a perfect never changing tune,are cars are not that nice to us. :lolsign:

 

[SaturdaysGS]

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@Oct 25 2006, 05:40 PM
But again, he wants to be able to tune it, and not really have to worry about it. If its tuned for safety and not balls to the wall and left as is for a while without scanning or adjusting everyday, a VS will be perfect.

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if your not tuning a VS for max power why wouldnt you put in rockers for the ease and just about the same gains to a point
VS 's are supposed to get you 20-25hp, that is after a good tune, so a less dialed in tunemight net you what 15-20hp......is that not the gain from a set of 1.9s almost exactly.....

i still chuckle at thethought of a perfect never changing tune,are cars are not that nice to us. :lolsign:

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Ok, yes you can get that much hp from a good tune, BUT like I said though, a balls to the wall tune to me means like extra timing, or on the absolute brink of KR with as small as he can go pulley, which is not safe for not wanting to scan day to day; any GOOD tune would be safe for a while. I never said that there was a perfect tune either, I just said it would last him a while where he wouldnt be checking it or having to tweak it everyday, or everyweek.

Trust me, I know our cars aren't that nice to us.

 

[xierxior]

the tune shoudn't actually "drift" once you have it dialed in but larger cams like a xp/xpz require a VE which is an absolute PITA to do and it takes three/five weeks to hit every single area on the VE map. when people bitch about their tuens drifting it's usually because they tried tuning by IFR which will cause the tune to drift back to where it was over time because the computer eventually fiugres out the pulse width is wrong but don't qoute me on this because it doesn't happen to every car but if you do infact do a VE and MAF tune after the VE tune the tune shouldn't drift unless you tune it all in when it's negative -30C then expect it to be dead on when it's 90C.
with a larger cam you'll never get idle tuned and your trims will always drift back and forth which can cause it to idle a little weird at times.

 

[Fish]

I hear stock is easy to tune.

 

[xierxior]

Originally posted by Fish@Oct 28 2006, 12:48 AM
I hear stock is easy to tune.

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[Fish]

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I hear stock is easy to tune.

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