powers84

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my buddy installed a cam and then bent his pushrods. how could he put the cam or timing gears in wrong?

BattleShip

There are numerous ways to do it wrong. What is the lift of cam? Which rockers did you use? Ratio? Were the springs changed?

Sounds like spring coilbind, and the weakest link was the stock pushrods.

powers84

iTrader: (4)

does a 94 z28 lt1 have a different style cam the the 97's besides the cam dowel pin?

powers84

iTrader: (4)

everything is stock the cam is a cc305 he was going to put a cc503 but sent him the wrong one. its a .510 .510 276 290 lift cam

powers84

iTrader: (4)

i have a 97 timing gear and its differnt then his 94 gear why is this? the teeth are all off.

BattleShip

The cam styles are the same

The springs could not take the lift, they bound, and bent the pushrods. So at a minimum you will need to change the pushrods, replace the valve springs, and HOPE the lifters and cam are ok...

How may miles or minutes before they bent?

BattleShip

97 has a crank trigger on TC

BattleShip

What do you mean the teeth are all off? Are you talking about the gear 'teeth' that drives the water pump drive? Your car might have an electric water pump and therefore, the person changed and used a dfferent timing chan gear...

powers84

iTrader: (4)

well just so everyone knows my buddy did this and im trying to fix it and i did. he never lined the dots on the timing gear so it was really off its only his 2nd time doing a cam and the first 1 i did most of the work thanks for the info

C5042081

iTrader: (5)

did the thing even fire with the timing being off that much?

BattleShip

What did you mean by the teeth are missing?