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morepowerjoe · 05-28-2021, 03:52 PM

Just curious do you know the lift of your cam?

Avenging Orange · 05-28-2021, 04:09 PM

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226 intake/ 238 duration 113 lsa +3 advance

What lift?

1JEWLDSSRS · 05-28-2021, 04:25 PM

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thank you! I'm definitely happy with TSP. I think them and GPI are both quality. I also did smith brothers trunions and the power bond pulley too. About the only thing I didn't do that I maybe should have was titanium retainers. The guys that did it told me the car is more reliable now than when i brought it to them with the stock afm garbage

Very nice!! And yea you get rid of all the afm crap and put quality valve train components in you have a bullet proof setup. Awesome...

RobZL1 · 05-28-2021, 05:38 PM

Congrats!! I smile like an idiot every day because of my cam.

13_SS_RS · 05-28-2021, 09:55 PM

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What lift?

Oh sorry y’all. Cam card says @cam .353 and @valve .600. It’s the same for intake and exhaust

Camaro2ss2010 · 05-28-2021, 10:05 PM

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Oh sorry y’all. Cam card says @cam .353 and @valve .600. It’s the same for intake and exhaust

I would’ve guessed a .629 as that’s his go to cam. He also installed mine, I have the LS3 though.

morepowerjoe · 05-29-2021, 01:36 AM

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Oh sorry y’all. Cam card says @cam .353 and @valve .600. It’s the same for intake and exhaust

That's crazy because mine is 223/237 @ 637/637.

Avenging Orange · 05-29-2021, 11:50 AM

I was guessing 600-ish.

hytrfg99 · 05-31-2021, 03:27 PM

I was just thinking about getting the GPI SS1 CAM. Any issues or complaints with it? Also, it came with a "kit" on the website, would that be all I need to install it or would I have to modify anything else? Thanks!

I have CAI, Flowmaster exhaust w/CAT delete, 1 7/8 shorty headers, 3:91 gears, manuel transmission.

morepowerjoe · 05-31-2021, 04:04 PM

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I was just thinking about getting the GPI SS1 CAM. Any issues or complaints with it? Also, it came with a "kit" on the website, would that be all I need to install it or would I have to modify anything else? Thanks!

I have CAI, Flowmaster exhaust w/CAT delete, 1 7/8 shorty headers, 3:91 gears, manuel transmission.

If I could do mine over I would go with the SS2 and because I have a lot of jurking in gear that I particularly don't like and if it's gonna do this I would have rather had a bigger cam with more power. But since you are manual you don't have to worry about that. He'll I'd even think about a SS3. And the kit is pretty complete except
probably want to do an oil pump and a rocker trunnion upgrade as well.

13_SS_RS · 06-01-2021, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by hytrfg99

I was just thinking about getting the GPI SS1 CAM. Any issues or complaints with it? Also, it came with a "kit" on the website, would that be all I need to install it or would I have to modify anything else? Thanks!

I have CAI, Flowmaster exhaust w/CAT delete, 1 7/8 shorty headers, 3:91 gears, manuel transmission.

you need long tubes too. shorty headers are gonna really hold you back with a cam

WHAMMO · 06-03-2021, 06:03 PM

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If I could do mine over I would go with the SS2 and because I have a lot of jurking in gear that I particularly don't like and if it's gonna do this I would have rather had a bigger cam with more power. But since you are manual you don't have to worry about that. He'll I'd even think about a SS3. And the kit is pretty complete except
probably want to do an oil pump and a rocker trunnion upgrade as well.

I dont have experience with auto, but the smallest cam shouldnt buck like that...who tuned it? Maybe the tune can be touched up

morepowerjoe · 06-03-2021, 08:04 PM

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I dont have experience with auto, but the smallest cam shouldnt buck like that...who tuned it? Maybe the tune can be touched up

At first Ryan at GPI tuned it and it bucked and than I had a dyno tune at Exodus here in Austin. The tuner there said he can't tune it out because it's tugging on the stock converter. He told me I basically needed a better torque converter.

InFiD3ViL · 06-03-2021, 08:53 PM

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At first Ryan at GPI tuned it and it bucked and than I had a dyno tune at Exodus here in Austin. The tuner there said he can't tune it out because it's tugging on the stock converter. He told me I basically needed a better torque converter.

Yeah it's really not bucking in the sense like a manual would, but more like rocking and bouncing with the lope (At least from my experience). It is most evident at traffic lights, since the stock convertor isn't really suited for this cam. It's definitely not subtle. Basically, every single lope makes the car/trans want to move or lurch forward.

I know GPI advertises their LS3 SS1 and VVT SS1 as stock convertor friendly cams, but they really are not. I am used to it and actually love how it shakes, especially since it is so damned lopey. But I know it needs a convertor bad.

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hytrfg99 Drives: 2011 Camaro SS Join Date: May 2021 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 9	I was just thinking about getting the GPI SS1 CAM. Any issues or complaints with it? Also, it came with a "kit" on the website, would that be all I need to install it or would I have to modify anything else? Thanks! I have CAI, Flowmaster exhaust w/CAT delete, 1 7/8 shorty headers, 3:91 gears, manuel transmission.