[ParisTNDude]

Originally Posted by Denis

so lately ive been pricing up cams...but i realize in order to do it right on an L99 you're easly looking at over 2 grand just in parts. you need the Cam ($430), in my case i want to keep the VVT so i need the AFM delete kit ($390), VVT Phaser limiter ($60), Torque Converter ($800) springs ($300), Trunion upgrade ($140), C6R Timing Chain ($150), Melling Oil Pump ($160) + Tuning.

i mean TSP offers a kit which inclused the cam, Springs, push rods, dod delete, and phaser limiter for 1200 bucks...saves you about 30 which is good.

so without the tune your looking at roughly $2500 just for a cam...that price includes doing it myself....forget about installation. its crazy...hence why my SS has remained cam-less for this long. if i had an LS3 it would have had a cam a long time ago. Now i know a lot of those things on that list are required whether its an LS3 or L99 but the AFM delete, phaser limiter and Torque converter are unique to the L99...but thats ~$1250 right there...cuts the price in half.

anyway...just ranting about it. trying to figure out how you guys afford it! you selling your kidneys or what? lol

I traded my good running, 2010 non cammed L99 for a 2012 LS3 and first time at the track with the same mods, I wished I had kept my L99. There were so many problems with wheel hop, I couldn't get close to my L99 ETs, and I did the whole bushing, toe rods, etc etc on the LS3. Before I put that much money in a cam, I would think hard about a Pro-Charger.