Daily Driving a Cammed Silverado | Pros and Cons 

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Cons there are no cons to a cammed ls

Need a tune bud helps with everything you just described

Sounds like you need a tune which is a no brainer when getting a cam.

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That’s loud? I thought you were driving a Tesla.

Sounds like you really need a tune. That’s a pretty small cam to have surging issues, not to mention your shifting issues. It’s all fixed with the tune and the right tuner. For example, my 6.0L in my car with 230/238 cam has no surging, relatively smooth idle for what it is( you know there’s a cam in it) and smooth power band.

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Did i miss the part when he named the cons. ???

Tune it soon bro. You need the right fuel to air ratio or else you'll stall out. Which is the big cam mistake people make. Tune it or else those small problems you've been facing will turn into disasters. Thanks for the video man. And remember, no such thing as too loud. Best of luck !

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You can never get to loud. My mustang gt is straight piped/cams and I want more louder

Very helpful, thanks. Now I know what cam not to get. You have to ask yourself "how do I use my truck and where do I want my power".

I have a 06 cateye crewcab and is currently in the shop getting the btr stage 4 cam built stage 2 trans and a circle D 3000-3,200 stall. Other mods are longtube headers, 4.11 gears, cold air intake, exhaust and has 6" lift on 35s. Cannot wait to get it back! Should be a fun truck

My brother had a 2009 G8 w an Ls swap (Ls3) with a 231/242 camshaft and it sounded like a complete beast W/out headers only had some other small modifications , a cam really bring out a lot of attention specially when it's just on a red light.

few years late but judging from your cons it sounds like you needed to get it tuned to smooth everything out and get better fuel economy.

Thanks for video, I have to replace lifters in my 07 classic with a 5.3 so might as well cam it to help pull boat.

Don't forget your Trans cooler when you go with a stall convertor.

next video better be burn outs and donuts

Just finished my cam avalanche and yes its alot fast for a 6k lbs truck and I got a mild cam funny part is I got better gas mileage lol told cam 10-13 now 12-18 but if I floor it 9-14 mpg. U guest have to keep getting it tune to get it to stop surfing mine did that when I brake it's a tune issue if u haven't fixed it by now. I got a total DOD delete kit

Going threw a drive thru I just put it in neutral👍

When I built my new HCI 5.3 it dropped 1-2 mpg compared to the old LS1 (98 TA)but picked up a lot of power so its totally worth it

This video is hilarious you gotta be high to watch this guy funny af 😂😂😂😂

It's your idle air control it's with your throttle body mine used to do the same

Cammed 13' GMC 5.3 here. One other con I have is when driving slowly like in a parking lot, the engine wants to load up when I'm just rolling along with no foot on the gas or the brake and I have to ride the brake to keep it idled down.

12.4! Shit. I'm lifted 6 inches with 35's on my Sierra and avg 15-16 at the pump. 50/50 highway/city driving.

12MPG!!! My Tahoe makes 8 WTF!!!!

Not as loud as my daily driven 94 K1500... Hooker long tubes with 18" glass packs dumping under the floor boards...

400hp off just a cam? Must be nice. Haha I noticed you tuned it now but yes, all your problems came from the lack there of.

I’m putting a stage 1 Brian Tooley Racing cam in mine. I need the extra torque for pulling my 30’ Travel Trailer and 24’ pontoon.

Yeah I have an 02 Silverado 5.3, rcd 6"lift, 3"body, 513 gear, Tru Trac, 37 Baja claws, headers, gutted cats, straight pipe true duals, H pipe, TB spacer, comp thumper cam, 2500 stall, cold air, hypertech power pack, monster HD trans (straight piece of shit) I can go on and on but that's the most of it and I get 7mpg on a good day with stock tune you do have to left foot brake at red lights to keep it running and it will surge so do not tailgate at a red light but it is a confidence booster just driving it will make your day a good day I got the truck when I was 17 and I'm 30 now live on a farm plenty of wild nights together I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING! I BUILT IT the way I WANT IT and it's perfect I'm swapping a 6.0 and a 4l80 bc I have I wrecked a 05 2500 might axle swap IDK

what about a stage 1 cam with modest mods..... 2015 Silverado 1500 5.3L -Longtubes -3inch In/Out Catless Ypipe -muffler and rear resonator delete AirRaid MIT tube Amsoil dry filter L86 (6.2L) intake manifold future mods -lower thermostat Jet PowerFlo Throttlebody

See, I don't mind camming mine, the problem is living in an apartment complex and worrying about annoying the neighbors. I mean, I already have an exhaust and soon to be long tubes.

Running a built 09 5.3l with zero issues at all but horrible gas mileage but I run a fully built trans and 3200 triple disc stall but no loading up or surging

Which stage did you pick for your cam ?

That stepside squarebody tho. @3:14

I just got a little 2003 short wide that has a manual v6 so honestly I think just a v8 is going to be pretty good for it but we plan on doing a lot to the motor with heads cam rockers valve job and more so I hope with it being a light truck and so tiny that with a v8 motor making atleast 400 something horse will be pretty peppy

I used to put my truck in neutral and roll down the hill a little bit to start it lol

im getting 14 city in the tahoe 19 highway btr truck cam and head work. mpgs can be somewhat fixed by a street tune. plus I also had heads and block milled and thinner head gasket it's at like 9.8:1 compression had it retuned he used less fuel to make the same power.

you get better gas mileage than my factory f-250... then again it has the 7.5L 460 block square body...

hey bud,you said in the cons at idle your gonna have a lopey sound,hell yea thats why we do it,and second i have a blazer thats pretty low with a 6.0 and tsp stage 1 dual 2.5's and for right now its dumped at the axle and borla xr-1's guess what i can whisper and talk,wanna know why,sound deadener my friend,now you dont have to go crazy like i did,im a stereo guy so i put over 100 lbs.yea i gutted it and did the roof and every thing,because i got a 18 inch sub but i like my front stage nice,im fixing to swap to magnaflow bullets and hopefully run it out the side behind the pass side tire.but get some sound deadener and do the doors,floor,and roof really good,im talking layers,then foam over that.its super quiet i promise,haha well mine is with all the stuff i did.but yea it can be done,it does suck not having any bottom end,that pisses me off bad,so im going to do something about that this fall

The surging means that its loading up on you be careful not to foul out spark plugs.

It seems to cruise calmly, idk the size of the cam, but the larger you go on the 5.3 the more dd and idle calmness you trade

I have a 4l60 torque converter...i installed a 4l80

Im not cammed, and I get 14 on the highway goin 70 with no headwind And 9 in the city Just a 2012 4x4 crew cab leveled on 33’s

I have a 5.3 that's cammed and I have 28mpg on the high way and 17mpg in town

Your loping pblm at the stoplight is your tune

like that orange square body in the nabor hood

got 5 speed no worries about the shifting part

Thanks for the vid, thinking about putting in a 6.0 LS in my 86 k20 Burb. Have a 5.7 SBC with a 4" lift and average 8.6 mpg in the city. 12mpg with the ls benefits is an upgrade for sure!

Well said my friend

What size cam? Sounds like it’s pretty aggressive. Maybe a mild or ls6 cam would be a good daily driver.

I get 15 on my stock 5.3😂

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Bro all of your tips and information is not correct at all, just saying... Depending on the cam you get you do not need a stall converter. There are a lot of cams that pull from idle/1200-6500 RPM. Most folks don't add an aftermarket cam worried about fuel mileage. If you have other mods that compliment the cam such as an aftermarket intake manifold or ported manifold, CAI, aftermarket throttle body or ported throttle body, full exhaust, gear and of course a tune by a reputable person/shop then the cam will benefit your truck most. A cam without any other supporting mods will hurt power rather than help it even if it is a cam with a tune, not an ideal upgrade. Do not blow your money on expensive and time consuming port/polish work when these LS stock heads actually flow very well. Port the intake and throttle body and be done with it. When you add an exhaust be sure to use long tube headers to get the full efficiency and power from your exhaust mods. An engine needs to breathe out just as much as it needs to breathe in! Have your tuner disable the rear O2 sensors and so forth. If you use 3.73 gear it will benefit most stage 1 or stage 2 aftermarket cams the best for fuel efficiency and driveability unless you are strictly building a street/strip truck or a sleeper. There are many options for cams, many and a company like Texas Speed will sell you and push you towards what you need, not what you want because most folks have no idea what they actually need anyways.

I work nights and come home in the morning. The only neighbor that bitches about my truck being loud is the guy across the street. It's kinda stupid because he has a blown jet boat that he's tuning on all summer long. He's a dick sometimes, but it's a nice boat. 😂

I heard cams ruin engines? But I really want one!! Idk what to do!! Everyone keeps telling me not to do it! Have a LS3 cam I wanna put on my Pontiac G8

Great video man..

People always say that they put in a 2800 stall or something but if youre not going to race it all the time do you really even need a bigger stall?

How much did the whole entire set-up cost?

you just need a better tune i got a 54-603-11 comp i tuned for it no problems

My 4th gen Ram 1500 Reg Cab RWD 5.7 hemi is 6,350 dry.... majority if not all 1500 class trucks are lighter...

I have a 2009 Silverado 5.3 4spd that I have 190k miles on. I drive a lot of highway miles and I tow a lot, and its my daily driver. I've never had any issues with the truck other than sensors and wheel bearings, I think I've only ever sank like $2k in repairs on it ever. I've been thinking about what to do when the motor/ trans does go out, whether to rebuild the 5.3 and 4l80e or to swap for a 6.0 with a 6l80e. Either way I want to build the engine a bit, my goal is to get a reliable powerful daily for towing and doing truck stuff while getting decent fuel economy on the highway. It sounds like your truck gets the highway mileage I wish mine got, but do you or have you towed on the highway with it? Would a cam be a good investment, should I port the heads if I do, and would that make up for low end power loss? Or should I do something else like a supercharger?

You need a tune you should easily be 18 to 20 MPG I make 520 HP and get 22 MPG on highway 18 in city

The reason that you have to hold down the brakes at the stop lights is bc you need an aftermarket torque converter with the right stall speed

Any companies ya recommend to get a Dino tune?

whats up John quick question... What size/type cam do you recommend for 4.8 tahoe..and can my heads & intake stay stock or do i have to upgrade them?

Did you delete the dod when you installed the cam? New lifters? Springs? Or pushrods?

any advice on my soon to be build, I have a 4.8l (i know i know) i wanna get a 212/218 114 lsa, valve springs, 3.73 gears and a 3400 stall. can anyone guide me if these will go together well or if i should consider other parts.

It's a whittle cam. Cute though lol.stock truck make a no powa, need to build mota and trans make a powa.lol

Tune tune

What cam do you have? My 06 is getting i was told a 2800 ls7 lifters rods, I have long tube pacesetter headers catalytic convs straight pipe have been deleted posi and street tune with magnaflow exhaust

Sounds like your tune is wrong or it needs to be tuned

What cam do you have?

That womping at a stop might be your AC clutch kicking in. I had a gm truck, whenever the clutch engaged the idle raised, almost like it was making some more hp to run the compressor.

The rpm jumping an stuff is called cam surging its normal

Would this be recommend to improve reliability/to get rid of the AFM system? I have been reading some horror stories on the AFM

you dont know the struggle yet until you have to pump e85 and have to look for a gas station.

3200 rpm stall torque converter

tell me u didn't just drive thru flower bluff bro? I'm in that area, black 06 intimidator silverado ss

So let me get this right. "camming" a truck makes it sound good.

Costed me $97 for 22 gallons today

okay, whose cam and what are its specs?

@ 5:00. Sounds like tps my 88 silverado does that nd my 99 crown vic did that

What size cam and brand did you get? I have a 2010 Z

Great review, honest as can be. Great job.

I think u talked me out of getting my L86 cammed might just do the whipple supercharger and call it good enough

My truck is lifted on 35s and I get the same gas mileage as non lifted.

Do you have to warm up a cammed truck in cold morning

smiles per gallon

it's only not worth it if you don't like cars wdym lol I spend money on gas to drive in circles for hours what difference does a cam make. wasting money but having more fun is a win if you ask me lol fun costs money in the long run

What's your 0-60?

Must've had a shitty tune... I get over 22 mpg and the loudness is all based on the exhaust my truck shakes but it doesnt pull me forward that's weird.

putting in gas im thinking not a good idea

so let me get this straight,how do u can a fuel Injected v8 with v4,With out changing rockers and springs and to invite chain. Full of chet

learn AND invest in tuning your own vehicle it will help you understand way more of what your trying to explain....

Are flowmaster 40 series sound good with straight pipes

What stage cam is in your truck?

what do you recommend on a 2008 chevy silverado vortec max 6.0L?