[morepowerjoe]

Originally Posted by acammer

First - the car sounds awesome. You guys are right, our "stages" tend to run a little larger in actual size that most of our competitors - the SS1 is a pretty aggressive camshaft for a stock torque converter car, and delicately balances performance against driveability. Ideally, even the stage 1 cams would prefer to be paired with a higher stall converter - and that big of tugging you're feeling at idle is totally normal with a stock converter. If something more significant is going on where your getting any sort of violent bucking, we definitely want to get that cleaned up in the tune, just let us know.

The valve-train noise is another side-effect of much heavier springs working against much bigger lobes on the camshaft. The top end of a cammed LS is usually a pretty noisy place - but it's also perfectly normal. It always seems to stand out to you more when it's your own car, but take a listen to some other cammed LS setups and you'll pretty much always find a mild cacophony of sewing machine noise.

I don't know if the bucking in gear is normal or not. It is kinda violent. Who should I contact about it, Ryan?