Wonderin' what you guy's thought of a stock block with Crower Stage 3 cams, i.e. how long would I have, and what not.

Current mods bein' 01 L, JLP CAI and #4 lower, would have a decent street strip tune on the chip.

If you think Stage 3's would be too radical what about 2's, and what are you thinkin' HP wise?

Thanks
Dustin

 

Evil- I would not use the stage 3 crowers.The power band is up too high for the roots type blowers, especially an Eaton Blower which kinda dead heads at 5500 rpms. Those stage 3's make their "good" power past that. personally I think the stage 2's are great for street and strip.They have a very healthy mid range and top end yet still maintain decent low end power. Most of your modded Lightnings use this grind. Otherwise I have heard good results from the Comp cams grinds, See Outrageous performance on those. Tommy personally uses them on his mid 11 second eaton powered lightning.Good luck.

 

Thanks, I was assuming they would prolly be too steep, what stall size do you recomend with the stage 2's?

Again thanks,
Dustin

 

I like the Art Carr triple disc 2600 stall myself. If your truck is modded pretty good it will even act like a 2800 stall. We have tried 2400,2600, and 2800 stalls and I preffer the 2600 for street/strip with the stage 2's thats a winning combo.

 

thanks for the help.

 

I wonder if cams would help on my stock block with 15lbs of boost and a ported eaton

 

Most definately.I am planning on that combo myself. Tommy Lightning is running a ported eaton with long tubes,cams and a 2800 stall converter and i watched him click off an 11.6 second run in hot humid Florida air! Did I mention he had a stock throttle body?? The cams are giving these trucks anywhere from 35-50 h.p. depending on your mods.

 

Do the stage 2 cams give it any sort of lope? (I'd really like that)

Rich

 

The Stage 2 Crowers give you just a *little* lope (which can be dialed out by bumping up the idle RPM if you don't like it). But it's not that enjoyable since we have those mushy (gel filled?) engine mounts that take all the fun out (the engine and exhaust just wiggle by themselves). Some solid engine mounts would rock the whole truck nicely!