Ran a 228/232 .617 108lsa stock stall 775 idle 5.3 for a couple months, pretty much any cam will run and drive on the stock stall, but this cam really seems to enjoy the stock stall definitely a cam for the daily driver not looking to do too many mods, impressive.
Thanks for sharing Im debating on a truck norris or btr stage 4 truck cam. I really want the btr 4 truck cam, I have a stock stall on the 4l80e, at 2200?? On a 97 extcab c1500, Thanks, btr stg 4 truck is 224/230 111
@@frankdatank7751 the stage 4 will make a few more top end but the truck norris will make a good bit more in the mid range .. I'd say truck norris if u wasn't gonna Rev to the moon
@@taylormade4049 Even if you are making a 7000+ RPM setup the Truck Norris cam is hard to beat. Average power production is excellent with that cam profile and better still it’s able to produce a broad, useful power curve even when everything induction wise is stock.
Im currently fighting a sticking lifter in my 5.3.. i priced new lifters and for what its gonna cost and the amount of work involved to change them if i cant get it to stop sticking, im just gonna take the opportunity and toss one of these cams in woth some fresh seals and new springs. Itll also give me the opportunity to start dabbling in HP tuners which is something I've wanted to learn but havent had a good reason to get into until potentially now..
I have an 09 with this cam. But at stops feels like it wants to launch and when letting off the throttle on hiway it pulses under 40 mph. Have the 6 speed without stall had it tuned twice. No other mods.
Just installed one in my LZ1 along with springs , rods , lifters & timing chain & I'm running the stock converter in the L480e in my 60 Biscayne ... I've never heard a bad word about this cam .
Just did mine over the weekend and straight hopped into driving on a stock converter it does fine you don’t need a 3k or above stall for it, I’ll be going to rebuild my transmission and going with a 2400 stall, truck runs fine untuned with the stock converter
I have jacked up lifter so gonna do a dod delete and need a new cam So am going with the Truck Norris name alone says ya just have to.. 09 silverado lh engine. If I can gain power lose dod crap and keep fuel milage the same color me happy.
How is the fueling with the stock injectors? Still have plenty of Injector left. Do you think once he does headers, cai, and other support mods that you'll still be good on fuel? I'm about to do this cam and debating on getting Injectors also
@@DillardTuned what injectors should I go with? Doing the truck Norris cam kit that comes with converter and speed engineering headers it’s the “TRUCK YEAH” package wondering what injectors to go with it’s going to be a fbo truck 5.3 lm7
Turn all the torque management up, 4l60e will do fine for a long time with TM on and a 40k cooler. Mines been fine with over 500+hp infront of it. Im not real nice to it either lol. TM has smooth shifts and i have it set to shift faster than stock, gettimg about 40ftlbs during a shift so minimal stress on trans. I kinda like the Cadillac shifts vs the punch in the gut shifts also. Doesnt seem to be any slower just smoother. Gut punch shifts r for the guys who like replacing transmissions i think lol
I have the truck norris for a 5.3. I don't know a thing about tuning. i got the holley terminator maxX. will I need to take it to get tuned or I can rely on the self tuning it comes with?
I have this cam on my 99 5.3 with stock stall and the low end from a dig it is really laggy when i push the brake and gas to load it up it does well but just flooring it. It sometimes doesnt take off. Hopefuly a stall fixs my issue.
It was runing fine for a couple of months and it threw a code for the tps i bought a new one and it still throws the same code p0121 and p0103 and the idle surges sometimes
@@ompatel3866 once i did the stall and got retuned it works really good mines also throw the tps i changed 1 and it still threw the code so i cleaned the idle air and it runs great
Certainly seems like it has some pep, I can see this cam being the ultimate daily cam for 4.8/5.3 trucks, I'd really like to see someone put a nice intake manifold on with this cam and see how high it can rev, it can go 6500 rpms without losing power on a tbss Manifold, a daily driver cam that could possibly rev 6600-6800rpms on a 4.8 daily truck sure sounds badass too me
@@boost1728 Pretty tempted too try it but kind of worried about buying one considering how expensive they can be too possibly only get negligible results especially since a fast lsxrt is over a thousand dollars
@@chrishansen7004 I’m buying the summit brand intake. Less than $500 with shipping and I can use the same rails and 92mm throttle body I’m already using. Great deal honestly and guaranteed to be better up top than a TBSS
@@chrishansen7004 part number SUM-226122B. It’s a very nice piece for the price. Look into the sloppy best cam; very similar down low but a bit better up top. Should also make for an excellent daily driver cam
X2 on doing springs. The yellow (ls6?) Springs are 140 with retainers it's so cheap theres no reason not to. If you're running bolt ons as well, you're moving the powerband up and will likely want to raise the rev limiter and shift points.
Cant pass up video about the cam I'm wanting. But my question is, hopefully someone can help, is that my 6.0 Terminator x max was running fine right out of the box for a few months, other day it just died, no fuel pressure, I cycled the key a couple times got the fuel pressure back got ot home, next day it started always good, minute did it again cycling couple times and it ran, that's not working anymore, no prime, I can hear the relay clicking the fuse isn't blown, I took the ground wire back at the fuel pump off the frame and clean the frame-ups again and reinstalled it, what the heck? You think my new walbro fuel pump shot craps? I don't get how it worked when I cycled it a couple times, or why ots doing nothing but clicking the relay with no blown fuse with a new fuel pump and good ground, plus I've been driving it for 3 months.
@@jessewait2931 stock 4l80e converter is heavy jakes sales one for about $550 before tax/shipping, a converter isnt necessary but once you have it youll never wanna go back. Id do a 3200-3400 behind anything even stock unless you got a huge cam.
I'll be going with this cam on my 2012. Was originally deciding between the BTR Torque cam and Stage 1 but Richard Holdeners new video comparing them all changed my mind. czcams.com/video/zxnrKkOgu2Q/video.html
I dont think ppl understand how the tuning works with a cam in a ls. You can set it to behave differently in park and nuetral vs in gear and coasting. I can set mine to chop hard in p/n and idle about stock in gear and stock when coasting to a stop. Im idling about 725-750. The over and underspeed spark tabs in hptuner will let u make these adjustments. My lq4, decked 243 heads, ss2 cam, and full 3" duals with stock 4l60e and stock torque converter behave almost stock with that tune. I set mine to chop hard all the time tho, so i jerk at stop lights but still enuff vacuum for brakes to function properly
@@DillardTuned yeah i forgot to say ive got a gen 4....no throttle cracker and settings arw a bit different. I made my lq4 gen 3 a gen 4 to work in my truck. But yeah ur correct those will change it also. Its all in the tune to how daily driveable it is
@@JCM111 my 09 had a 6l with ss2 cam infromt of a bone stock 4l60e ( with a modified tune of course) drove great even with cam chopping like a mofo. After 3 months of pounding on it the 60e gave up the ghost, lost 2nd gear but did it on purpose bc I have 80e to go in
Just because it idles ok doesn’t mean your not leaving a TON of performance on the table running that stock converter. There is a reason almost every reputable cam designer recommends a higher stall with valve events like this. To each their own though, I don’t understand why anyone would pay to have a cam put in a truck that they don’t even have a real exhaust in lol.
It picked up power everywhere... still drives like stock and has a nice chop. If it were mine I'd have a 3000 circle d truck converter. I think I talked the owner into it installing one but again it's not my truck
@@DillardTuned I’m sure it did over a stock 4.8 cam lol. But it would pick up power much quicker with a converter. But if all you’re doing is driving to the grocery store it doesn’t much matter, but I would assume one is in search of performance if getting a cam from BTR, so why not actually ream some real performance out of it with some long tubes and a converter.
i know im a year late but im considering camming my 5.3 tahoe , but i cant tune and the only tuners arpund are known for being dicks, and they want 650 for a STREET tune which just sounds ridiculous to me but what do i know
@@Dooguy you know how a stock Silverado downshifts a whole lot just to get out of it's own way? From what I understand a cam like this or milder (probably with tuning) will downshift less for part throttle, increasing or at least maintaining mpg.
Ran a 228/232 .617 108lsa stock stall 775 idle 5.3 for a couple months, pretty much any cam will run and drive on the stock stall, but this cam really seems to enjoy the stock stall definitely a cam for the daily driver not looking to do too many mods, impressive.
Thanks for sharing Im debating on a truck norris or btr stage 4 truck cam. I really want the btr 4 truck cam, I have a stock stall on the 4l80e, at 2200?? On a 97 extcab c1500, Thanks, btr stg 4 truck is 224/230 111
@@frankdatank7751 the stage 4 will make a few more top end but the truck norris will make a good bit more in the mid range .. I'd say truck norris if u wasn't gonna Rev to the moon
@@taylormade4049 Even if you are making a 7000+ RPM setup the Truck Norris cam is hard to beat. Average power production is excellent with that cam profile and better still it’s able to produce a broad, useful power curve even when everything induction wise is stock.
Im currently fighting a sticking lifter in my 5.3.. i priced new lifters and for what its gonna cost and the amount of work involved to change them if i cant get it to stop sticking, im just gonna take the opportunity and toss one of these cams in woth some fresh seals and new springs. Itll also give me the opportunity to start dabbling in HP tuners which is something I've wanted to learn but havent had a good reason to get into until potentially now..
Do you have to modify anything to put the chuck norris cam shaft
Norris cam or the chopcobra cammed ??? Which one would be better ???
I have an 09 with this cam. But at stops feels like it wants to launch and when letting off the throttle on hiway it pulses under 40 mph. Have the 6 speed without stall had it tuned twice. No other mods.
Just installed one in my LZ1 along with springs , rods , lifters & timing chain & I'm running the stock converter in the L480e in my 60 Biscayne ... I've never heard a bad word about this cam .
Great cam
Thanks for your video on the Truck Norris cam. What stall speed torque converter do you recommend for this cam in a stock 5.3l for towing?
2600-3000rpm
Just did mine over the weekend and straight hopped into driving on a stock converter it does fine you don’t need a 3k or above stall for it, I’ll be going to rebuild my transmission and going with a 2400 stall, truck runs fine untuned with the stock converter
You must have gotten lucky because this thing was stalling like crazy when brought to me
Did you notice the extra power from this cam ?
@@DELTRANIO99 yes... very much so. I love the grind
@@DillardTuned Thanks for the reply ,,I Was thinking putting this cam in my Iroc with the 5.3 swap
I have no brakes I can drop the idle down to 580 and still idles
Sure does sound good!
I love the idle quality
Texas speed sounds better
@@rrwe22 that’s nice, good thing no one asked you
I have jacked up lifter so gonna do a dod delete and need a new cam So am going with the Truck Norris name alone says ya just have to..
09 silverado lh engine.
If I can gain power lose dod crap and keep fuel milage the same color me happy.
How is the fueling with the stock injectors? Still have plenty of Injector left. Do you think once he does headers, cai, and other support mods that you'll still be good on fuel? I'm about to do this cam and debating on getting Injectors also
I would at least go up to some 42 lb injectors if he does the supporting mods
@@DillardTuned what injectors should I go with? Doing the truck Norris cam kit that comes with converter and speed engineering headers it’s the “TRUCK YEAH” package wondering what injectors to go with it’s going to be a fbo truck 5.3 lm7
@@DillardTuned also what else do you recommend to get done to support the mods
@@abrahamherrera6911 I like big green 42 lb injectors or you can run ls3 injectors. I would do a walboro 190lph fuel pump with a hotwire kit as well
Looks like the engines running a little cold there 🤭
- tach says 1100 -
“As you can see we’re idling at 700”
Yea I messed up there. The tach was like 400 rpm off I meant to look at the datalog
Was tired and on Sudafed lol
@@DillardTuned lol
It happens
He did sY it was 400 off
I'm about to put it in my 04 Denali with stock converter. I'm going to save up for a transmission when this one eventually goes.
It'll work with the stock converter just get a good tuner
Im actually doing the same with my 04 Denali. This month with long tubes. Gonna save up for some 243s and new transmission aswell
Turn all the torque management up, 4l60e will do fine for a long time with TM on and a 40k cooler. Mines been fine with over 500+hp infront of it. Im not real nice to it either lol. TM has smooth shifts and i have it set to shift faster than stock, gettimg about 40ftlbs during a shift so minimal stress on trans. I kinda like the Cadillac shifts vs the punch in the gut shifts also. Doesnt seem to be any slower just smoother. Gut punch shifts r for the guys who like replacing transmissions i think lol
@@erik120719 What are you tuning it with?
@@SonOfAdolf hp tuners
I have the truck norris for a 5.3. I don't know a thing about tuning. i got the holley terminator maxX. will I need to take it to get tuned or I can rely on the self tuning it comes with?
should definitely go tune it to be safe, fuel will be all sorts of messed up
I have this cam on my 99 5.3 with stock stall and the low end from a dig it is really laggy when i push the brake and gas to load it up it does well but just flooring it. It sometimes doesnt take off. Hopefuly a stall fixs my issue.
Who tuned it because when I tuned this one it picked tq downlow
I got it tuned by std tuning
It was runing fine for a couple of months and it threw a code for the tps i bought a new one and it still throws the same code p0121 and p0103 and the idle surges sometimes
@@alexispina319 i just got my truck tuned today and the tuner said it threw a tps code and the idle definatly surges
@@ompatel3866 once i did the stall and got retuned it works really good mines also throw the tps i changed 1 and it still threw the code so i cleaned the idle air and it runs great
Certainly seems like it has some pep, I can see this cam being the ultimate daily cam for 4.8/5.3 trucks, I'd really like to see someone put a nice intake manifold on with this cam and see how high it can rev, it can go 6500 rpms without losing power on a tbss Manifold, a daily driver cam that could possibly rev 6600-6800rpms on a 4.8 daily truck sure sounds badass too me
Buy an intake and try it.
@@boost1728 Pretty tempted too try it but kind of worried about buying one considering how expensive they can be too possibly only get negligible results especially since a fast lsxrt is over a thousand dollars
@@chrishansen7004 I’m buying the summit brand intake. Less than $500 with shipping and I can use the same rails and 92mm throttle body I’m already using. Great deal honestly and guaranteed to be better up top than a TBSS
@@chrishansen7004 part number SUM-226122B. It’s a very nice piece for the price. Look into the sloppy best cam; very similar down low but a bit better up top. Should also make for an excellent daily driver cam
Have either one of you ran this cam and a tbss/ 5 3 or 6.0??? Setting up a simple cruiser combo for my dad.
How did you zoom in on your tac pointing directly at 1000 and come up with 700?? Lmao
Nothing beats a stall with any performance cam except BOOST !! If you think it’s nice now put in a 3500 stall and put your signature on the black top
I tune for a living trust me I know what a higher stalled converter dies fir performance
I want to put this cam in my 08 Silverado but I have to do a full dod delete also.
Yes for the best performance bc I put it have an 08 and I love it add me on Facebook and I can show you what I have but it’s not fully done yet
Truck Norris Cam slap or do you recommend lifters and pushrods
For the amount of lift I don't think they are recommended. But I would go ahead and do springs and lifters if it were mine
X2 on doing springs. The yellow (ls6?) Springs are 140 with retainers it's so cheap theres no reason not to. If you're running bolt ons as well, you're moving the powerband up and will likely want to raise the rev limiter and shift points.
I think the recommend a 560 lift spring
Cant pass up video about the cam I'm wanting. But my question is, hopefully someone can help, is that my 6.0 Terminator x max was running fine right out of the box for a few months, other day it just died, no fuel pressure, I cycled the key a couple times got the fuel pressure back got ot home, next day it started always good, minute did it again cycling couple times and it ran, that's not working anymore, no prime, I can hear the relay clicking the fuse isn't blown, I took the ground wire back at the fuel pump off the frame and clean the frame-ups again and reinstalled it, what the heck? You think my new walbro fuel pump shot craps? I don't get how it worked when I cycled it a couple times, or why ots doing nothing but clicking the relay with no blown fuse with a new fuel pump and good ground, plus I've been driving it for 3 months.
Sounds like connectivity somewhere.
@@menogusta9829 I appreciate your trying to help, Its the fuel pump. Thanks all the same.
Would the stock converter work better behind a 5.3?
Yes it would
@@DillardTuned ive got a 5.3 im going to put in front of a 4l80e . Thought about running a 4.3 converter
@@jessewait2931 stock 4l80e converter is heavy jakes sales one for about $550 before tax/shipping, a converter isnt necessary but once you have it youll never wanna go back. Id do a 3200-3400 behind anything even stock unless you got a huge cam.
How you think that cam will do in a 2013 suburban 5.3 lc9 4x4
I'll be going with this cam on my 2012. Was originally deciding between the BTR Torque cam and Stage 1 but Richard Holdeners new video comparing them all changed my mind. czcams.com/video/zxnrKkOgu2Q/video.html
@@wygbuumy cam came today along with my trunnion kit
You bought the last one or what? I decide on a cam and it's sold out lol.
Does it require valve spring swap or will it work on stock 5.3 springs
560 lift spring
Not me thinking I can do a cam swap in the barracks parking lot… 😳😅
I hope you did it…
Lame ass dude
I dont think ppl understand how the tuning works with a cam in a ls. You can set it to behave differently in park and nuetral vs in gear and coasting. I can set mine to chop hard in p/n and idle about stock in gear and stock when coasting to a stop. Im idling about 725-750. The over and underspeed spark tabs in hptuner will let u make these adjustments. My lq4, decked 243 heads, ss2 cam, and full 3" duals with stock 4l60e and stock torque converter behave almost stock with that tune. I set mine to chop hard all the time tho, so i jerk at stop lights but still enuff vacuum for brakes to function properly
Over and under spark does do it but the adaptive idle I tune as well, throttle cracker and follower get tuned as well.
@@DillardTuned yeah i forgot to say ive got a gen 4....no throttle cracker and settings arw a bit different. I made my lq4 gen 3 a gen 4 to work in my truck. But yeah ur correct those will change it also. Its all in the tune to how daily driveable it is
Lmao I love that, rock on
First time hearing about this after a month of research before ordering parts, thank you 🙏🏽
@@JCM111 my 09 had a 6l with ss2 cam infromt of a bone stock 4l60e ( with a modified tune of course) drove great even with cam chopping like a mofo. After 3 months of pounding on it the 60e gave up the ghost, lost 2nd gear but did it on purpose bc I have 80e to go in
Just because it idles ok doesn’t mean your not leaving a TON of performance on the table running that stock converter. There is a reason almost every reputable cam designer recommends a higher stall with valve events like this. To each their own though, I don’t understand why anyone would pay to have a cam put in a truck that they don’t even have a real exhaust in lol.
It picked up power everywhere... still drives like stock and has a nice chop. If it were mine I'd have a 3000 circle d truck converter. I think I talked the owner into it installing one but again it's not my truck
@@DillardTuned I’m sure it did over a stock 4.8 cam lol. But it would pick up power much quicker with a converter. But if all you’re doing is driving to the grocery store it doesn’t much matter, but I would assume one is in search of performance if getting a cam from BTR, so why not actually ream some real performance out of it with some long tubes and a converter.
@@kennethpowers8995 I agree whole heartedly
i know im a year late but im considering camming my 5.3 tahoe , but i cant tune and the only tuners arpund are known for being dicks, and they want 650 for a STREET tune which just sounds ridiculous to me but what do i know
We charge 400 for a street tune on gm gen 3
What is the lsa of the cam?
It's tight. I can't remember off the top of my head but like a 109 I think
107.5
Where are you located?
Easley sc hawks motorsports I'm the tuner there
Fuel mileage effected from stock ??
Nah about the same
@@DillardTuned less or more mines a pig stock...i certainly do not want to go backwards
With trans tuning its better than stock
@@Dooguy you know how a stock Silverado downshifts a whole lot just to get out of it's own way? From what I understand a cam like this or milder (probably with tuning) will downshift less for part throttle, increasing or at least maintaining mpg.
What year is this trailblazer?
Mid 2000s any base model that has the vortec inline 6
@@DillardTuned dual overhead cam?
vortec 4200 yessir
Brakes work like stock in the drive through?... Wife won't like a stiff pedal when shes getting a Starbucks, due to lower vaccum
They still work fine
@@DillardTuned thanks for replying, I really want this exact cam for my dod,vvt delete..
Can't believe someone would do a cam before some other mods.....especially with the cam being the least effective of other mods.
This cam picks up power everywhere. I'm telling ya it's nice
@@DillardTuned headers and efans would do more. Hell just getting the pe delay and tm out of it will do more.
@@HioSSilver1999 I've tuned it!!!
@@HioSSilver1999 I d9nt turn torque management off. 4l60 don't like that
@@DillardTuned you can reduce and they're fine.
Looks like its idleing at 1000
Tach is off
Of course it was I'll that's not even an intelligent question
Cool!
i gotta ask man with this cam and stock stall will it still do brake stand burnouts?
Depends on the gear ratio