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    DD H/C Setup

    Alright guys heres the deal. My 00' WS6 is my daily driver which sees 50 miles a day or so during the school year. Im looking for a heads/cam setup that will hopefully get me around 400 rwhp and still be daily driveable and not too bad on gas mileage. Possible? Heres my current setup:

    Stock LS1 Internals
    Pacesetter Coated LTs w/ ORY
    Hooker 3" Catback
    SLP Lid
    Motive 4.10 Rear-End

    Any help would be appreciated. If possible, please include costs for parts (self-install) and cost of dyno tuning. Thanks!

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    As far as milage your 4.10's are probably hurting you worse than the H/C. I would say anything under 228 duration ought to be pretty good for a DD, of course everyones idea of driveability differs. Personally Patriot has got a lot going for them lately. I am pretty happy with the set I have. Prices swing widely for dyno tuning, figure around $1,000-1,200 for the heads, 300-400 for the cam and maybe 500-600 for the tune. I don't know your mileage but you may need new oil pump, lifters. I would say you will have to also throw in a set of pushrods. If I knew your mileage I could give you a better figure, but that should get you started.

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    Car is currently just over 63k. What about porting and polishing the stock heads?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bg552 View Post
    Car is currently just over 63k. What about porting and polishing the stock heads?
    cost for porting 853 heads vs the gains often isnt very cost effective - patriot /livernois / tsp etc etc ported LS6 (243 castings) are a great bang for the buck

    personally here is my favorite set up... cam only...
    car was a beast for what it was...
    ls6 intake
    Thunder Racing 224 w. necc springs (stay away from comp 918's as they've been having many failures)
    stock length hardened chrome moly PR's (7.400)
    pacesetters/hpipe - bullets - turn downs
    12 bolt w. 4.10's
    rear suspension
    some weight reduction (sound ded/ac syst/air/egr/back seats/spare etc)

    11.6x @ 119 (i believe that was the mph - i know 11.6x was the ET)
    car still got 28 mpg on the hwy

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    Got any vids of that setup? What kind of power was it making?

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    click on the links in my sig. now i have a bigger cam and FAST 90/90 waiting to install...

    SLP Lid
    SLP Bellow
    Ls6 Intake
    Patriot Performance Stage II Ls6 ported heads
    Comp Cam: 224/224 .581/.581 112lsa
    Ls2 Timing Chain
    Ls6 Oil Pump: ported and shimmed
    Stainless Steel Long tube headers: AIR/EGR delete
    Pacesetter 3" ORY
    SLP Loud Mouth cat-back w/4"dia 22" long Magnaflow tips
    Hurst Competition Plus 6spd shifter
    Spohn Panhard Rod
    Spohn LCA's
    Spohn STB
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    SSwt00SS ... nice numbers
    those heads are good for 15-25 hp forsure

    personally i'd stay w. the 224 cam... it's my fav cam...
    soo many guys going low 11's and a few in the 10's N/A
    Last edited by 1BADDLS1; 06-18-2007 at 10:00 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1BADDLS1 View Post
    SSwt00SS
    those heads are good for 15-25 hp forsure

    personally i'd stay w. the 224 cam... it's my fav cam...
    soo many guys going low 11's and a few in the 10's N/A
    i got way more than that...

    i went from 376 to my current 409 w/those heads. great price and Gunner from Patrtiot Performance brings a whole new meaning to customer serivce...!

    and yes i have read on TECH about guys running low 11's - 10's with a 224 cam...

    its crazy. makes me want to quit my day job and just play w/the SS...haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by SSwt00SS View Post
    i got way more than that...

    i went from 376 to my current 409 w/those heads. great price and Gunner from Patrtiot Performance brings a whole new meaning to customer serivce...!

    and yes i have read on TECH about guys running low 11's - 10's with a 224 cam...

    its crazy. makes me want to quit my day job and just play w/the SS...haha
    damn... didnt know that... nothing else changed but the heads?
    gunner is a great guy to deal with


    unfortunatley welfare cant support the LS1 habit hahaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1BADDLS1 View Post
    damn... didnt know that... nothing else changed but the heads?
    gunner is a great guy to deal with


    unfortunatley welfare cant support the LS1 habit hahaha
    nothing changed but the heads. but for the sake of being detailed and giving correct info, i went with the Stage II Ls6 "style" heads 2.02" int/1.57" ext @ 59cc. so that helped to bump up my C/R to 11.1:1 and we all know that high compression (to an extent) gives just a little more HP...

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