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Hey that's fine, I knew it was a torquey cam, just didn't think it pulled that hard that high up.
 

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Hey that's fine, I knew it was a torquey cam, just didn't think it pulled that hard that high up.

Its a wide LSA cam and I took out the 4* built-in advance degreeing the cam with a crower adjustable timing set recently. It makes even more top-end power after retarding it 4* from a 110* ICL which resulted in no noticeable low-end loss with a converter that flashes 3,400. Idle is a still very smooth. I cannot wait to get a set of ported 09+ eagle heads and a ported 6.1 intake on this beast.
 
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New to the internals of the engine. Still learning.


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Have both heads and intake available!

What do you charge for the heads, and what do the numbers look like on them? CNC port and polish? BV's? And is it the intake manifold or just a CAI, assuming its the manifold, which one is it and numbers on it if you have them? I need to build up the topend on mine. PM me or post up some details please.

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Its a wide LSA cam and I took out the 4* built-in advance degreeing the cam with a crower adjustable timing set recently. It makes even more top-end power after retarding it 4* from a 110* ICL which resulted in no noticeable low-end loss with a converter that flashes 3,400. Idle is a still very smooth. I cannot wait to get a set of ported 09+ eagle heads and a ported 6.1 intake on this beast.

I'm thinkng of putting the Sidewinder cam in my truck, is this mod to your cam something you would do to a daily driver, or just for raceing.

Kevin.
 

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Sidewinder is a good DD cam. What are you using currently for a tuner? Some trucks will run on a canned tune and others require custom tuning.
 

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Sidewinder is a good DD cam. What are you using currently for a tuner? Some trucks will run on a canned tune and others require custom tuning.

I'm useing a Superchips Cortex with the trans tune.The truck is a 04 Qc 4x4 w/4:56 Dtt, 180* thermostat,Edelbrock shorties.
and Magnaflow mufflers.
Thanks, Kevin.
 
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You might be ok, I would suggest planning a wideband in also to monitor A/F so if you go lean you know you will need a tune for that cam and either run a SCT or DSP.
 

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You might be ok, I would suggest planning a wideband in also to monitor A/F so if you go lean you know you will need a tune for that cam and either run a SCT or DSP.

Tell Randy (Randtx) who is running very low 12s in the 1/4 in his 06 Quad Cab that he needs SCT or DSP and he will laugh at you. My brother will also laugh at you with his Dakota. Superchips + PSC1 will run the Sidewinder.

This is me ******* off the neighbors with my 06 Sidewinder cammed Hemi, with my track exhaust, pacesetter long tubes and torque tubes. Immediately after a code start in 40*F weather.

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Tell Randy (Randtx) who is running very low 12s in the 1/4 in his 06 Quad Cab that he needs SCT or DSP and he will laugh at you. My brother will also laugh at you with his Dakota. Superchips + PSC1 will run the Sidewinder.

This is me ******* off the neighbors with my 06 Sidewinder cammed Hemi, with my track exhaust, pacesetter long tubes and torque tubes. Immediately after a code start in 40*F weather.

V0001 181211 - YouTube

I know of two guys that have had a fri sidewinder in their truck (one of them use to be on here) and it would not idle right and stall out. 99% of them will run fine but if you need to bump the idle for it to run right, superchips wont do that.
 

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I know of two guys that have had a fri sidewinder in their truck (one of them use to be on here) and it would not idle right and stall out. 99% of them will run fine but if you need to bump the idle for it to run right, superchips wont do that.

There has to be something wrong with that setup if the Sidewinder won't run smoothly at even 500 rpm. Mine would idle down as low as 400 rpm smoothly on a 4.7 tune that wasn't even close to matching the 5.7s fuel/timing curves.
 

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Chris how many people know how to do a split tuner like randy or Sam? Its easier for most guys to go to a known tuner and get a file written. I will leave it as that.
 

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Hello fellow dodge ram dudes! been lurking, reading and learning alot here. awesome info here, only wish i found it before starting my build! New to the hemi, but have worked on other engines but early models with distributors and external timing marks, the simple stuff. went to a local engine builder and dropped off my hemi for a rebuild after it dropped a valve going on a 160K. Kind of nervous about the cam installed. Have read here about 210 duration to much for stock tune. My cam card reads 268 dur but then says 210 @ .050 ? Does this mean I have 268 or 210? When you speak of duration at .050 what does this mean? Its an American cam HR-10. Am I going to have to custom tune? Will it run with stock components??? Any help is greatly appreciated...I into this thing up to my NOSE! FYI-2003 dodge ram hemi 5.7, quad, 4x4 bought it used so dont know if anything was done to the computer...
 

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I will try to get a picture posted but more than likely it wont happen until the AM. It reads "Intake duration @ .050: 210 and reads the same for exhaust.
 
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