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Hey, new Vette owner here! Long story short, bought an 04 base 6spd with 89k miles in November. Week before Christmas, heard a loud rattle noise and turned out the crankshaft balancer bolt backed out. Since geting in to replace the balancer/bolt is a decent amount of work, I decided to do some upgrades while it was apart, as follows:
Got to fix some other stuff in the process, leaking water pump, leaking vally pan gasket, leaking powers steering line, air system delete, you get the idea. Was able to have it street and dyno tuned today and am SUPER happy with the results. This cam has a pretty aggressive idle but still drives like stock around town. I've only done a few highway pulls before it started raining today, but looking forward to putting some miles on it tomorrow. I'm not going to do anymore performance mods for a while, just preventative maintenance and fix anything that decides to break. I bought this as a daily driver and will be putting about 500 miles a week on it. Anyway, figured people might want to see the results of this basis set-up.
Did you have any consideration to changing the heads while you were in there? Definitely not needed but also easy horsepower.
Thanks! I did think about it but it just wasn't in the budget once factoring in new head studs, lifters, gaskets. I also needed to get the car back on the road for school, i got lucky as it was being able to do this over winter break. The whole project came about from being in the engine for a repair anyways, so I went for "bang for the buck". Once I'm not daily driving the car in a year or so I may re-visit the heads or scratch building an engine.
The cam has caused minor bucking at real low speeds, like 10mph in second gear in a parking lot. I just leave it in first a little longer lol. Overall the driveability hasn't changed much from stock, which is what I wanted.
Hey, new Vette owner here! Long story short, bought an 04 base 6spd with 89k miles in November. Week before Christmas, heard a loud rattle noise and turned out the crankshaft balancer bolt backed out. Since geting in to replace the balancer/bolt is a decent amount of work, I decided to do some upgrades while it was apart, as follows:
Got to fix some other stuff in the process, leaking water pump, leaking vally pan gasket, leaking powers steering line, air system delete, you get the idea. Was able to have it street and dyno tuned today and am SUPER happy with the results. This cam has a pretty aggressive idle but still drives like stock around town. I've only done a few highway pulls before it started raining today, but looking forward to putting some miles on it tomorrow. I'm not going to do anymore performance mods for a while, just preventative maintenance and fix anything that decides to break. I bought this as a daily driver and will be putting about 500 miles a week on it. Anyway, figured people might want to see the results of this basis set-up.
Nothing like having your own space to work a job like that. Congrats Few questions for you. We have the same car but you have 30k more miles than I doI do. My question this , do you feel like you be happier with a bigger ?
I’m Going all out with mine same as you did but I’ll be adding the 42lb injectors also. I’m only doing once do I wanna do it at the level beinv content. Which I’m hearing is not possible but hey, I only ever wanted an 11 DD
What do you think about the quality/fit/finish of the TSP long tubes and x Pipe?
The longtubes themselves fit perfect, and the x pipe is acceptable for sure. The tubes on the x-pipe sit pretty close to the tunnel, close enough that I'm sure they're hitting at times, but not much. It mated up to the magnaflow axleback I already had well, and doesn't hang down real low beneath the car, still have good ground clearance.
Originally Posted by C5 for life
Nothing like having your own space to work a job like that. Congrats Few questions for you. We have the same car but you have 30k more miles than I doI do. My question this , do you feel like you be happier with a bigger ?
I’m Going all out with mine same as you did but I’ll be adding the 42lb injectors also. I’m only doing once do I wanna do it at the level beinv content. Which I’m hearing is not possible but hey, I only ever wanted an 11 DD
I think you could go larger and still be able to daily it just fine, but I'm happy with the 228R. Its big enough to give me what I wanted, but I can still get in and just drive the car, don't have to worry about anything as it drives very much like stock when not beating on it.
01-04-2019, 09:17 PM
2004 C5 228R Cam Longtube Headers Dyno
