jasonisdn

i pointed him in a good direction.

JustNO

Oh Benji Benji, you helped me a lot. And you see I'm giving up now. Maybe before doing this I should try to change the gear to 4.10, and lets see finally if there will be a change or not.

Z-RATED94

That was going to be my suggestion when I read you have 3.42s. More gear will help, and keep the Rs up a little more. I hope jasonisdn can help you out too. Good luck.

RedLT4Mike

Big cams aren't for everyone, but I do agree that you should try a 4.10
4.30 or 4.56 gear.
Big cams need big gears, hell I've got a Joe O. LE2 cam which is smaller
than yours and I've got 373's which I think are to little for me.
I'm gonna go 4.10 or 4.30's really soon.

urbaNHunter44

wow yeah try a 4.10 gear, you'll get rid of alot of the bucking

95ttoplt1

Add me to the list recommending a gear change. With that cam I would think 4.30's or 4.56.

Tunning will make a difference as well. Not knocking Ion but you can only get so close on a mail order tune.

JustNO

with 4.30 or 4.56 will not it be like "drag only" car ? What about long trips? Or road races?

Sweetred95ta

I loved my 4.40's. With a lean tune (15:1 a/f), I was able to get ~18 mpg. The only downside is you'd probably be shifting into 5th in the quarter mile; which is why I changed mine out to 4.22's. If you're road racing the car, I think you'd love gears that low. With the 4.40's, I was cruising on the highway at 70 mph @ 2k rpm. That's enough rpm to get it out of the surge area and not enough to cause horrible gas mileage.

O J

I have a cam similar to that 224/230 you're looking at with 4.10s. No driveability issues with a mail order and I can get 25mpg highway.

JustNO

4.10 with a cam around 224/230 dur. ?!! OMG and I'm using 3.42 with my current cam. Okay I will definitely try the 4.10. I don't want to go with bigger because I never use my car in drag races. And top speed is also important to me.
25mpg is great, but I have not a problem in highway, I have a gas mileage problem in the city. So please give me your city gas mileages.

buzz12586

I have the 224/230 in my 355 and there is some slight bucking at low rpms but I am getting used to it. Its not very bad and I'll probably upgrade the gears later anyway.

Sweetred95ta

Did you forget which transmission you have? According to this gear calculator, with 4.40 gears (just as a reference) you'd still be able to do 229 mph @ 6500 in 6th gear. You're car would never make it to that speed, but just saying that it's still possible.

http://www.5speedtransmissions.com/gear_calculator.html

O J

Hehe, tough to say what the city MPG is, if I'm driving in the city I use my right foot a lot. Although, I used it for the commute a while back and I believe I got ~20mpg in mixed driving with a good bit of stop and go rush hour type stuff. So that would probably put the city mileage at 15-16mpg if I didn't get on it much.

my94blackz

Mine doesnt buck, and you can see the setup in the sig. My opion, is to find a dyno and find a reputable tuner to come tune it, put a 3.73 or better in it. If those 2 things doesnt suit you, then change your cam.