ThaEdge
Newbie
Well folks,
Looks like its time for a new cam for Wynonna (my 1996 Crew Cab Long Bed c3500 Unique Customs conversion truck and yes parking is difficult). It has the L29 and I do some towing. I have a 28 foot enclosed trailer that I load up with materials for (10klbs to 12klbs) and I have a 28 ft camper that I tow (7klbs). So nothing too crazy. The issue is that my L29 chewed up the distributor gear and I can’t imagine the cam is ok. So without taking the cam out there’s no real way of knowing the extent of the damage and if I’m going to take the cam out to inspect it I’ll just put a new one in. Which brings me to the real point of this thread.
I am pretty well set on a Competition Cams 01-412-8.
Intake Duration at .050 Inch Lift:212
Exhaust Duration at .050 Inch Lift:218
Intake Valve Lift:0.51
Exhaust Valve Lift:0.51
Lobe Separation:113
According to Zack over at Comp, this cam should let out about 30 more screaming bald eagles and turn 40lbft harder. With a steep torque curve coming up at about 1200rpm this should do nicely. But… Enough is never enough. I also need to put new dinosaur juice meters in her. The old ones are leaking. So im thinking, minus valves and rockers I’m putting a whole new valve train it, new distributor, new injectors, and while I’m at it I’ll probably just go ahead and throw a set of long tubes in it and do a cat delete. I did a cat back exhaust not too long ago, she’s pretty tame but you can hear the freedom when you find the go peddle. Now, here’s where I’ve sort of hit a stumbling block. She should be letting out the burnt stuff ok after all of this, but, now is my bone-stock intake gonna undo all the good I did on the exit side? If it is, then it poses more questions than it answers. Should I scrap all all exhaust stuff ideas and get a different cam more suited for super charging and go that route? I don’t know! I’m asking! I wasn’t’ ready to do all of this just yet but damn it, if have all this stuff off I should just change it. I’m not a fan of doing things twice. So budget is of some concern. I really only have about 2g’s to work with. I wanted to wait until the kidos where back in school. I would have another couple of g’s to work with. I can’t see her just sitting there in all her 2 owner garage kept glory!! I can squeeze a little more out somewhere I’m sure but you see the dilemma.
On a side note when she died I cracked open the valve covers and was shocked at how clean and new everything was! So I have all of the service records and this guy put Valvoline synthetic in all of her parts at 128 miles (yeah you read that right one-hundred twenty-eight) and did regular engine oil changes at 3k on the motor 30k on the trans, and 70k on diff. This thing is like new. The only issue is the old limited slip is tired and slipping, probably do to the fact that around 140k they put the wrong diff oil in it and that oil is still there. All the good oil in the world couldn’t save that distributor gear though!
Any thoughts and ideas are much appreciated!
Looks like its time for a new cam for Wynonna (my 1996 Crew Cab Long Bed c3500 Unique Customs conversion truck and yes parking is difficult). It has the L29 and I do some towing. I have a 28 foot enclosed trailer that I load up with materials for (10klbs to 12klbs) and I have a 28 ft camper that I tow (7klbs). So nothing too crazy. The issue is that my L29 chewed up the distributor gear and I can’t imagine the cam is ok. So without taking the cam out there’s no real way of knowing the extent of the damage and if I’m going to take the cam out to inspect it I’ll just put a new one in. Which brings me to the real point of this thread.
I am pretty well set on a Competition Cams 01-412-8.
Intake Duration at .050 Inch Lift:212
Exhaust Duration at .050 Inch Lift:218
Intake Valve Lift:0.51
Exhaust Valve Lift:0.51
Lobe Separation:113
According to Zack over at Comp, this cam should let out about 30 more screaming bald eagles and turn 40lbft harder. With a steep torque curve coming up at about 1200rpm this should do nicely. But… Enough is never enough. I also need to put new dinosaur juice meters in her. The old ones are leaking. So im thinking, minus valves and rockers I’m putting a whole new valve train it, new distributor, new injectors, and while I’m at it I’ll probably just go ahead and throw a set of long tubes in it and do a cat delete. I did a cat back exhaust not too long ago, she’s pretty tame but you can hear the freedom when you find the go peddle. Now, here’s where I’ve sort of hit a stumbling block. She should be letting out the burnt stuff ok after all of this, but, now is my bone-stock intake gonna undo all the good I did on the exit side? If it is, then it poses more questions than it answers. Should I scrap all all exhaust stuff ideas and get a different cam more suited for super charging and go that route? I don’t know! I’m asking! I wasn’t’ ready to do all of this just yet but damn it, if have all this stuff off I should just change it. I’m not a fan of doing things twice. So budget is of some concern. I really only have about 2g’s to work with. I wanted to wait until the kidos where back in school. I would have another couple of g’s to work with. I can’t see her just sitting there in all her 2 owner garage kept glory!! I can squeeze a little more out somewhere I’m sure but you see the dilemma.
On a side note when she died I cracked open the valve covers and was shocked at how clean and new everything was! So I have all of the service records and this guy put Valvoline synthetic in all of her parts at 128 miles (yeah you read that right one-hundred twenty-eight) and did regular engine oil changes at 3k on the motor 30k on the trans, and 70k on diff. This thing is like new. The only issue is the old limited slip is tired and slipping, probably do to the fact that around 140k they put the wrong diff oil in it and that oil is still there. All the good oil in the world couldn’t save that distributor gear though!
Any thoughts and ideas are much appreciated!
