Cammed my Z06 this past weekend

[Alberta_ZR1]

I know there are some who don't like the Z06 because they bleed ZR1 through and through, which is awesome.....but seeing how my ZR1 has Z06 sibling, I decided to drop a cam into her this past weekend...let me know what you think.

If all goes well with the tune, I should be pulling around 500 or so at the wheels...I'll post dyno sheets once I get that finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAstM...ature=youtu.be

[LGAFF]

Nice!

[FU]

It'll be all in the tune. And it will be good. Livernois put's out some real nice products !

[mgg]

You are killing me!!! I really want a yellow C6 Z06. I just love these cars. They are truly fantastic. I love my ZR-1 but I want a C6 Z06 badly. Good luck with the tune. Car sound great!

[Alberta_ZR1]

Originally Posted by FU2

It'll be all in the tune. And it will be good. Livernois put's out some real nice products !

Yeah I looked at piles and piles of camshafts and after the sound and spec's, definitely decided to go with Livernois. The only struggle now is finding a reputable tuner, the company I had wanted to get the tune done with, who is suppose to be one of the best in Western Canada, doesn't know how to return emails or phone calls I guess.

I was debating on going down the HP Tuners route...anybody have any experience with their product? Seems like you can get in there and play with all the parameters.

Originally Posted by mgg

You are killing me!!! I really want a yellow C6 Z06. I just love these cars. They are truly fantastic. I love my ZR-1 but I want a C6 Z06 badly. Good luck with the tune. Car sound great!

Thanks for the compliments mgg and everyone else. I'm definitely satisfied with the end result. Only took about 1.5 days of leisure work to put it in, which was the most satisfying. Most shops quoted me 28 hours labor to do it...said the motor had to come out...

[FU]

Just for starters why not pull the ECM and send it to Livernois ? At worst you will have a great baseline. They will get you real close with an excellent tune. If not close to spot on. No one know's Livernois cam tuning like Livernois. Food for thought.

I had a ZO with a mild Stalker Ragin Racin cam West coast cyl. heads and headers on stock exhaust. Went 10.30 at 133+. I miss that car.

[Kevin]

friend of mine bought a red one to use as a track car, that way she doens't have to worry about stuffing her lambo into the tires

[Alberta_ZR1]

Originally Posted by FU2

Just for starters why not pull the ECM and send it to Livernois ? At worst you will have a great baseline. They will get you real close with an excellent tune. If not close to spot on. No one know's Livernois cam tuning like Livernois. Food for thought. .

I had contemplated that idea too. They're just so far away and the summer months are so short up here, would hate to sacrifice 2-3 weeks waiting on the tune. I'll have to call them and see how long if we expedited the package each way...good suggestion though

[FU]

How'd it all work out Tyler ??

[Alberta_ZR1]

Oh thanks for asking!! and as always, the easy things always turn into a major pain in the a$s.

I originally drove the car 2.5 hours out to Tilley, Alberta where there is a tuning shop who comes highly recommended throughout the industry as one of the best GM tuning guru’s in the West. Personally, he may have been good back when, but I think he is just coasting off his past reputation now. I arrive, he connects up the car, downloads a tune (I'm assuming a previously built one for a similar set up because he never started or even ran the car), after a 20 minute download tells me to take the car for a burn. I come back, he asks how it is, I say it feels fine. "That'll be $520.00".

Have the car home for about 2 weeks and I start getting some driveability concerns that progressively get worse. Two fail-to-starts, and then some serious erratic idling (not the good kind) and surging at low RPM's. I email him and say "ahh the car is acting up here and it getting progressively worse". I get the usual excuses "must be bad fuel or the hot temperatures lately" – Yep bad fuel after a third tank, nobody else apparently runs a Z06 in the Southern states and I think the lunar pull might be having an effect too

I was put in contact with an amazing retired software guy who does tunes as a past time. We do some data logging or at least try to because my computer was locked. But from what we could see, there wasn't too much done and the motor was really struggling with timing, AFR, knock issues and there was even a DTC for mis-fire detection.

I go back and forth through email with my original tuner and it eventually results in me driving back out there and having him unlock my computer, reflash to factory and refund me my $520.00. I then drive home, with my retired software tuner in the passenger seat laptop connected. After $100.00 for the tuning license, we spent about 8 hours total tuning this car in (cold starts to temp, WOT tuning, and around town tuning!)

He was my saving grace!! So now the car runs AWESOME!! For example, under WOT there is an error rating of 0.03% for what the computer is demanding for AFR and what the motor is actually doing...that’s pretty damn good to me.

Best part, he has a line on a dyno that will probably be free to do a few pulls.

Sorry for the lengthy story, but just the reminder of this fiasco makes me mad...10 hours worth of fuel down the drain.