Well I think it's safe to say my Cam...

Stroked777 · Jul 24, 2013

SEABEE08FX4 said:
Do you know the cam specs or did Matt have the specs? Also what was the RPM range it was rated for? Might just need to have Matt tweak the tune.

The came specs are in my sig, I remember telling him the specs on the cam(basically copy and pasted my sig to him) but ill talk to him about it again

madman1234509 · Jul 24, 2013

This hissing is normal. Both my trucks have done it. Its got to to with the VGT set up, and my 08 didnt have an egr pipe to leak from.

SEABEE08FX4 · Jul 24, 2013

Stroked777 said:
The came specs are in my sig, I remember telling him the specs on the cam(basically copy and pasted my sig to him) but ill talk to him about it again

Gotcha, thats what I would do though. Just see if he can tweak it.

Stroked777 · Jul 24, 2013

SEABEE08FX4 said:
Gotcha, thats what I would do though. Just see if he can tweak it.

I'll shoot him an email, I have talked to him before about it but ill try again to see if he can mess with it and do some trial and error testing

NoSlow6.0 · Jul 25, 2013

Rykan were you asking which cam company made the cam for my truck?

04stroker · Jul 25, 2013

NoSlow6.0 said:
Rykan were you asking which cam company made the cam for my truck?

Yea both, who made the one that did not spec out and who made the one you currently have?

Gearhead · Jul 25, 2013

I would guess with stock turbos the boost to bp ratio may be getting skewed. Anytime you improve the volumetric efficiency of the engine it creates different requirements for the turbo system. Just a Wag, but the small chargers may be out of their efficiency ranges. Just like a motor with more cubic inches, it requires more airflow for the same basic rpm range. When i designed my 7.3 cams i made sure to look at the valve events and not just the duration numbers. My cams don't add overlap over stock to prevent chamber contamination when both valves are open and drive pressure is higher than boost pressure.

Fast-6.0 · Jul 25, 2013

NoSlow6.0 said:
I didn't read the whole post just the first page but here is my story. I bought a cam from a diesel company when I was having my engine rebuilt. The people rebuilding it profiled the cam, had it checked out to make sure it would work with my diesel engine, and the results were not good. The camshaft was made like a camshaft for a high revving gasoline engine. It was no good at making power in the range that diesels make their power. I think this is a problem a lot of companies are having. They are getting people to manufacture their camshafts that are used to doing cams for gas engines and don't understand the way diesels work and where their powerband is an such. I don't think its the companies fault that's having them made it just the lack of knowledge of the camshaft manufactures that are making them. Anyways I did not use that camshaft and had a custom camshaft made from a company that understands diesel engines and made me one that would work in my rpm range. Just my story.

So that's why you sent it back. LOL The EDE stage 1 cam is almost identical to the Colt Cam. Each is barely larger than stock. The cam Bigr has had excellent luck with was the same grind as the cam you returned.

Stroked777 · Jul 25, 2013

Gearhead said:
I would guess with stock turbos the boost to bp ratio may be getting skewed. Anytime you improve the volumetric efficiency of the engine it creates different requirements for the turbo system. Just a Wag, but the small chargers may be out of their efficiency ranges. Just like a motor with more cubic inches, it requires more airflow for the same basic rpm range. When i designed my 7.3 cams i made sure to look at the valve events and not just the duration numbers. My cams don't add overlap over stock to prevent chamber contamination when both valves are open and drive pressure is higher than boost pressure.

So what would have to be changed with the tuning in your opinion? I'll have to do some highway runs later and see what boost and bp valves are

BDP Sales · Jul 25, 2013

Fast-6.0 said:
So that's why you sent it back. LOL The EDE stage 1 cam is almost identical to the Colt Cam. Each is barely larger than stock. The cam Bigr has had excellent luck with was the same grind as the cam you returned.

LOL

LovinPSDs · Jul 25, 2013

Is there a cam that would drive the low end stronger?? I'm not a big peak power, higher rpm kinda guy as much as I want my truck to pull from a dig, and be useable hp.

Gearhead · Jul 25, 2013

Stroked777 said:
So what would have to be changed with the tuning in your opinion? I'll have to do some highway runs later and see what boost and bp valves are

get some turbo and make another 100hp would be the best way to fix it.

pog · Jul 25, 2013

Gearhead said:
get some turbo and make another 100hp would be the best way to fix it.

forced upgrade!

madman1234509 · Jul 25, 2013

I honestly dont think there is much tuning that is going to make a difference with a stock re grind cam. Maybe something agressive with valve reliefs and what not

Gearhead · Jul 25, 2013

madman1234509 said:
I honestly dont think there is much tuning that is going to make a difference with a stock re grind cam. Maybe something agressive with valve reliefs and what not

what do you mean?

Stroked777 · Jul 25, 2013

well going down the highway in 5th tc locked i got into it and i hit a max psi of 45psi and ebp maxed out at 53psi if that means anything, that was on hot setting with econ shift strategy

Stroked777 · Jul 25, 2013

Gearhead said:
get some turbo and make another 100hp would be the best way to fix it.

trust me a 72 is my plan

bigrpowr · Jul 25, 2013

Stroked777 said:
well going down the highway in 5th tc locked i got into it and i hit a max psi of 45psi and ebp maxed out at 53psi if that means anything, that was on hot setting with econ shift strategy

deducting barometric that puts your bp at 39 ... thats crazy low for 45 psi . if its true either

A.) its making awesome power or,
B.) dont trust reading. maybe EBP sensor is trash ?

gman1 · Jul 25, 2013

bigrpowr said:
deducting barometric that puts your bp at 39 ... thats crazy low for 45 psi . if its true either

A.) its making awesome power or,
B.) dont trust reading. maybe EBP sensor is trash ?

Looks like hes using a mini max. So what he is reading is what he is getting for EBP.

Stroked777 · Jul 25, 2013

bigrpowr said:
deducting barometric that puts your bp at 39 ... thats crazy low for 45 psi . if its true either

A.) its making awesome power or,
B.) dont trust reading. maybe EBP sensor is trash ?

yeah im using a mini max