New cam help

[Bubbafire88]

Hi yall, so I'm putting in a tsp stage 2 cam (229/244 .629"/615" 112 LSA, 109 ICL) along with the l99 to ls3 conversion kit with all the bells and whistles needed, ill admit i am quite young and don't have a good place to work on it so i brought it to my highschool autoshop class so I could do it in there, after i finish the complete install will i be able to drive it to my local tuning shop which is approximately 9 minutes or 4.1 miles. will driving it untuned cause any damage?

[Bubbafire88]

Also I forgot to add that the car currently has headers, intake
And colder ngk tr6 spark plugs with a tune from RDP

[Rmkuper]

First off I love this! Way to take the initiative and do this yourself! That cam sounds pretty simmilar to mine. If you can ask your tuner to come load a base file for you. Or see if anyone can trailer it for you. However you should be fine people do it all the time. Just keep your foot out of it for about 500 miles and take it nice and slow on the way there. It's gonna dive like trash. You're likely going to have very soft breaks caused by the cam robbing vacume from the booster, some surge, and it's gonna wanna stall. Have somone follow you for sure.

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[Bubbafire88]

Originally Posted by Rmkuper

First off I love this! Way to take the initiative and do this yourself! That cam sounds pretty simmilar to mine. If you can ask your tuner to come load a base file for you. Or see if anyone can trailer it for you. However you should be fine people do it all the time. Just keep your foot out of it for about 500 miles and take it nice and slow on the way there. It's gonna dive like trash. You're likely going to have very soft breaks caused by the cam robbing vacume from the booster, some surge, and it's gonna wanna stall. Have somone follow you for sure.

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Thanks I've always wanted to install a cam and now i have the chance, just ironing out the "plan" to move the car to the shop, good thing the shop is super close. Also is their some sort of break in period after i get it all finished that i should follow?

[Rmkuper]

Originally Posted by Bubbafire88

Thanks I've always wanted to install a cam and now i have the chance, just ironing out the "plan" to move the car to the shop, good thing the shop is super close. Also is their some sort of break in period after i get it all finished that i should follow?

A friend of mine once told me. "Them parts ain't gonna be any newer than they are right now. NOW LEAN ON THAT SOMBITCH!"

Personally I would take it easy for the first 500 miles monitor oil pressure and temperatures. You definitely want to change the oil after about 500 miles and check for any metal shavings etc.... I had my tuner get it running decent before we fully tuned it at WOT. Not sure its nessisary just what I felt comfortable with. Lots of people "LEAN on it" the first time they drive it.

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