95 5.0l Cam options
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95 5.0l Cam options
I just purchased a 95 5.0L with 115000 mi. It has a 3" cat back and I placed a K&N and redirected the intake for cold air around the radiator. I'm getting 15 mpg which is ok but the power is a bit high in the RPM's (2500-4000). Below that it has no real torque. This is different from the torque of my 92 4.9L it didn't seem to rev out as much and had better low torque. Is getting the right Cam for the torque range an easy fix or is this the nature of the 5.0L ?
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The 5.0 makes its power in the higher RPMs , the cat back is ok but the stock y pipe & manifolds are restrictive , headers & a hi flow y pipe will help alot , gearing is very important on the 5.0 , with stock tire size i would go 4.10 gears , the 95 may have mass air , if it does you will have some good cam choices.....Lew
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There are lots of cam choices but none of them produce more low rpm TQ from the 5.0, that's the nature of the beast with this motor it needs to spool up to make good power, it takes more displacement(5.8l+) to get respectable tq from a V8 in a relatively heavy truck.
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3.55 gears and a speed density intake. Headers are too much unwanted heat. If you uncork the exhaust completely then then is no back pressure thus making it rev even further and no torque.
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Back pressure doesn't make TQ, a tuned exhaust systems with headers does. The only way an engine will make less low rpm TQ with headers is if the exhaust system as a whole is WAY too big for the motor.. as in dual 3" on a stock 5.0.
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I've posted this a bunch of times, but I have a 94 / 5.0 truck with the HO cam, same as you. I advanced the cam 4 degrees when i changed the timing chain and water pump last winter, and it made a very noticable difference.
I cross the Pocono Mountains in central PA every time i visit home from college in upstate NY. I've made the drive about a dozen times in the last 4 years and have now done it twice (since the change) without shifting out of overdrive - that NEVER happened before. It boosted idle-2500 for sure, and I probably lost power above 4000 rpm, but I don't care, I never rev it any higher than that. It's a whole new truck..ok..not really..but I had the same complaints as you and it helped tremendously
I cross the Pocono Mountains in central PA every time i visit home from college in upstate NY. I've made the drive about a dozen times in the last 4 years and have now done it twice (since the change) without shifting out of overdrive - that NEVER happened before. It boosted idle-2500 for sure, and I probably lost power above 4000 rpm, but I don't care, I never rev it any higher than that. It's a whole new truck..ok..not really..but I had the same complaints as you and it helped tremendously
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I don't think I have the HO cam I just got the truck used and am really curoius about the cam you spoke of. It sounds like the type of response I'm looking for. I live in Idaho and going anywhere you encounter a grade and I don't want to rev it to the moon over little hill. The truck makes great power just not where I want to run it. I just don't want the heat from headers in the engine compartment so I will probably get a high flow cat and go 2 1/2 " from the headers down to the 3" out. When you talk to any one in the exhaust business that is the difference in running duals out the back or 3" out the side. You get more top end from the straight duals and torque from the side exit.
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