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L33 cam

Shippee123

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Blew my 350 vortec and going with a l33 aluminum 5.3 to replace it. Running a 2.3 to 1 reduction.its going on a 13'6" by 8 Alumitech hull. Always has 3 to 4 people in it. Trying to see about a cam for torque gains. I won't be twisting past the 6200 mark . Camshafts may as well be Greek to me. Any advise is appreciated
 
The cam from an LSA works very well with the 5.3. Depending on which engine you have, it will bring power up near 400 hp. A buddy put the cam from my engine (I put the LS9 cam into my LSA) into his 5.3 and it was an amazing transformation. He used the Holley Terminator for the tuning. Even if you can't find a freebee, the cam is very inexpensive at Jegs or Summit. I would recommend springs with it.
 
Diggin is right, LS9 cam does work well I started with that cam then swapped to an GM ASA road racing cam, motor came alive and the throttle response between 3,000 and 5,300 is amazing its low lift so you came use ls6 .560 lift springs or Basic BTR ls6 spring 89.00 for the set. Found my cam new in box for 200.00 GM ASA 226/236 .525/.525 109.9 LSA Very impressive little cam I even swapped to my current 6.0. Also ran it carbed the EFI is supposed to be hard to tune at idle. MY motor idles at 650 no problem. ASA cam was design to run in parameters of a stock corvette in a road race scenario 3,000-6,000 on and off the gas for a long duration.

COMP has a new HV cam, BTR has a few like the Truck Norris cam(we just put one in a buddies LS1 Boat it runs great) OR spend 20 with BTR and they will design one for you.

I am building a 408 stroker spent 20.00 with BTR and was impressed with the amount of time there Cam designer Nick spent with me on the phone. He never push me in a specific direction like several other cam companies did just like to what I want and answered my questions. I am very happy with the way the cam turned out.

. There are a lot of people the will tell you need a high lift cam. But lift is only a of the many consideration in picking a cam.
I will say that stock ls heads flow well to about .550 lift then they start to back off the flow number quickly after that, so much over lift over that really isn't gonna do much.


Good Luck with what ever direction you go
 
Went with a 550 lift summit truck cam, should do all I will need. Now just sit here and wait for my Holley terminator. Been in backorder for over a month and shows another month out now.
It will give me time to find some headers at least.
 
I would look a rocker trunion upgrade. BTR has a cheap well made shaft rocker system and thicker wall pushrods the proper length.

What springs you going to upgrade to?
 
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