View Poll Results: Who dis your cam install
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50.00%
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26.92%
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08-09-2011, 10:10 PM
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Do it yourself! Just take your time and DO NOT hurry. The LS1howto guide is very good. Print it out and follow along. It's not hard. Its a machine. It comes apart and goes back together. Not that hard. The only tricky part is the valvesprings on the back of the engine. Save your money and use a little bit of it to invest in a GOOD compressor made for the LS engine. Get some good torque wrenches. (ft lb and in lb.) You'll save money AND have more very useful tools in your collection.
08-10-2011, 04:31 PM
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if you are comfortable with bolt ons, and like stated you can take your time, hit up that cam swap yourself. I'd recommend TDC method while doing valve springs as compressed air in my cylinder dropped one valve down. not saying compressed air doesn't work, but that frightened me to one sec see a valve stem, and then poof.
i had no professional training, just a helpful writeup, and if I got worried I'd ask a question here or there, never hurts to double check! for me the feeling of completing the cam swap was a good one, as I love to know how things go together and work.
i had no professional training, just a helpful writeup, and if I got worried I'd ask a question here or there, never hurts to double check! for me the feeling of completing the cam swap was a good one, as I love to know how things go together and work.
08-10-2011, 06:04 PM
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Do it yourself! Just take your time and DO NOT hurry. The LS1howto guide is very good. Print it out and follow along. It's not hard. Its a machine. It comes apart and goes back together. Not that hard. The only tricky part is the valvesprings on the back of the engine. Save your money and use a little bit of it to invest in a GOOD compressor made for the LS engine. Get some good torque wrenches. (ft lb and in lb.) You'll save money AND have more very useful tools in your collection.
08-10-2011, 06:17 PM
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if you are comfortable with bolt ons, and like stated you can take your time, hit up that cam swap yourself. I'd recommend TDC method while doing valve springs as compressed air in my cylinder dropped one valve down. not saying compressed air doesn't work, but that frightened me to one sec see a valve stem, and then poof.
i had no professional training, just a helpful writeup, and if I got worried I'd ask a question here or there, never hurts to double check! for me the feeling of completing the cam swap was a good one, as I love to know how things go together and work.
i had no professional training, just a helpful writeup, and if I got worried I'd ask a question here or there, never hurts to double check! for me the feeling of completing the cam swap was a good one, as I love to know how things go together and work.
Save your money. It was the first thing I've ever done to a car besides filling it with oil and gas. As long as you follow the steps its really hard to screw up. Not to scare you but i also had a valve drop using the compressed air method (talk about a pucker effect) but i easily pushed it back to TDC. I also had no training just ls1howto. I say go for it the feeling of accomplishment is amazing and you'll be inspired to do more projects yourself.