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Old 11-16-2008, 07:54 PM
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I have pretty much all the parts I need to do my cam swap this weekend, with the exception of pushrods and rocker arms.

I am doing a very mild cam swap using the comp cam cc07-500-8. I also purchased the comp cam valve spring set (retainers,keepers), lifters, timing chain set, valve covers (w/alt clearence), intake mainifold (58mm ported), 58mm throttle body, and of course all the gaskets, pullers and oil.

My question is, are these comp cam high enery pushrods (7.195" length/5/16" diameter) the right ones for my 96' LT1? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/COMP-...QQcmdZViewItem
Also these rocker arms? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/COMP-...8986QQtcZphoto

Will those rockers clear my valve covers? And are those valve guides pictured?
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just get it from summit. similar prices and its guaranteed. unlike stuff from ebay but yes theyll work these are what i just bought

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...6&autoview=sku
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

but if you get the non self aligning rockers youd need guideplates

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...8&autoview=sku
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Yes those rockers will work fine and they will clear the stock valve covers.
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for your info those rockers look like only roller tip rockers not full roller
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Roller tip is pointless.
I would not bother replacing the pushrods with such a small cam unless you do use non-SA rockers and guideplates and then I would only replae the pushrods because of the guideplates.

I put a ZZ4 cam in my car at one point, was a little bigger than the cam you are looking to do, and even in this big whale of a car with 1650 stall and 2.93s it was fine, mistaken for stock by most folks who were around the car. After my experiance with that I think the Crane 227(210/224) is the smallest cam worth the effort to swap in. Like I said this is based on my experiance and that is with a car that would be much more sensitive to cam size.
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I decided to go with this cam because it does not require the computer to be flashed (summit tech told me). I am building this car while I am in school, so I want to be able to do all the work myself in my garage. I figured I would replace all preventive maintence parts, so I bought these parts today and like said before the lifters, springs and such. I am pretty much giving the engine a nice tune up



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