Yet another good reason to degree your cam
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Yet another good reason to degree your cam When I was younger and didn't know anything I never degreed a cam when I installed it. Just dot to dot. I like to think I'm smarter now than I was then. When I did my H/C/I/E swap on my 00' Hawk I degreed the EPS cam I got. It was suppose to be on a 110 ICL and it was about 111.5 I think. After degreeing it ended up at 109.5. Close enough for me.
I built a 355 LT1 for my friend. We degreed the cam he got from Lloyd Elliot, it was suppose to be at 110 and it was at 113.5 I checked it three different times and got the same numbers each time. We picked up the comp cams bushing kit and used the 4 degree bushing and ended up at 109.5 Again close enough for me.
From what I understand from the comp cam video that the ICL changes what RPM the powers at not necessarily total power. If that's is wrong someone with more knowledge(not that it would take much)please throw some input in here.
I built a 355 LT1 for my friend. We degreed the cam he got from Lloyd Elliot, it was suppose to be at 110 and it was at 113.5 I checked it three different times and got the same numbers each time. We picked up the comp cams bushing kit and used the 4 degree bushing and ended up at 109.5 Again close enough for me.
From what I understand from the comp cam video that the ICL changes what RPM the powers at not necessarily total power. If that's is wrong someone with more knowledge(not that it would take much)please throw some input in here.
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That is my understanding also but I am not an expert either...moves the power curve(rpm) but not necessarily total power.
Last edited by Paul57; Apr 3, 2011 at 10:31 PM.
cam is off a little.
timing gears/chain are off a little
crankgear is off a little.
add all that up and it can throw you off a couple of degrees easy.
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