Considering a centri cam
Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2016
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From: Raeford NC
Thanks for your input. That's a lot of converter swapping, LOL. Which blower do you have on your stock converter car? Why have you kept the stock converter(understandable if it's a PD)?
I don't really have any dead set power goals. I'm not 100% certain that I'll do a centri blower. There's really two things that motivate me to do a cam. 1. It seems that most of the work is done while I'm doing the HB. 2. My hopes is that the PAS3400 combined with a mild cam would satisfy me enough to not do the blower. Based on what I've read, I have no interest of having more than 600whp. 500-600 seems to be the sweet spot where most folks say they should have stopped.
Cam and headers should get me around 450whp and would cost ~$2200(ceramic TPS headers installed by me, ~$600 for cam kit) + tune. Would remove about 25 lbs off front of car
A&A with a 3.8 pully should get me 550whp and would cost ~$6200 (installed by me) + tune. Would add about 80 lbs to front of car. I do have some concerns with heat if I do headers/cam and then do the blower.
In the end, I'm wanting a very dependable street car that will rarely see the dragstrip (I did purchase a Dragy to document my progress though)
I intend to do the PAS3400 by itself and resolve traction issues first. Then I'll see what's next. I do like discussing this stuff so I welcome the input.
I don't really have any dead set power goals. I'm not 100% certain that I'll do a centri blower. There's really two things that motivate me to do a cam. 1. It seems that most of the work is done while I'm doing the HB. 2. My hopes is that the PAS3400 combined with a mild cam would satisfy me enough to not do the blower. Based on what I've read, I have no interest of having more than 600whp. 500-600 seems to be the sweet spot where most folks say they should have stopped.
Cam and headers should get me around 450whp and would cost ~$2200(ceramic TPS headers installed by me, ~$600 for cam kit) + tune. Would remove about 25 lbs off front of car
A&A with a 3.8 pully should get me 550whp and would cost ~$6200 (installed by me) + tune. Would add about 80 lbs to front of car. I do have some concerns with heat if I do headers/cam and then do the blower.
In the end, I'm wanting a very dependable street car that will rarely see the dragstrip (I did purchase a Dragy to document my progress though)
I intend to do the PAS3400 by itself and resolve traction issues first. Then I'll see what's next. I do like discussing this stuff so I welcome the input.
The stock converter car is a PD blower, LSA to be exact since it's an OEM gm supercharger I figured can't beat that for a daily driver. It isn't a corvette though but it is an LS3/6L80 car (chevy SS). I kept the converter stock on that since it's my wife's daily driver. She doesn't need anything wild and the car will make 700ft/lbs basically off idle.
I had the PAS 3400 with two different cam combos on my C6 and it was okayish as best. It ended up failing and destroyed my transmission too.
I've had the following converters in my Ls3 C6 and I'll put the best 60ft times I've had with them.
Yank SS3200 1.63 60ft
NA best ET 10.9@127 (heads cam na)
Yank PAS3400 1.60 60ft NA 1.49 60ft on nitrous
Best ET 10.0@134 (heads cam nitrous 5200 DA)
Circle D 258mm triple disc 1.41 60ft NA 1.32 60ft on nitrous
Best ET NA 10.2@135 (heads cam ls3)
Best ET nitrous 9.63@140 (progressed 175) First time running this converter
Best ET nitrous 1/8 6.1@113 (100 shot) A few months later after some more tuning with the new converter
Circle D 245mmm triple disc 1.40 60ft NA
Can't find the 1/4 time slips only had this converter in for a couple weeks
A different Circle D 258mm triple disc 1.43 60ft NA
Best ET NA 416 stroker 9.9@139
The SS has gone 10.0@141-142
1.51 60ft (stock cam, factory converter) just supercharger, headers, and fuel to support it.
I've also tuned and drove a few 100% stock 6l80 corvettes with a basic ProCharger P1SC kit and those are nice too. Nothing crazy drives absolutely stock until you go WOT and even down low below 4000 rpm they still feel pretty close to stock since the proharger makes boost with RPM.
