Should I do it or pay someone? heads/cam
If your car is gonna be apart more than week, do it yourself. I did my head gaskets 3 times. Its very doable, but I didn't have to mesure anything related to the valvetrain. This where it starts to be tricky. This year, I'll be paying a top notch shop to do the valvetrain. But, I could have done it myself.
Whatever you do, pay someone that knows his lsx stuff, if not, do it yourself.
Whatever you do, pay someone that knows his lsx stuff, if not, do it yourself.
Book As long as you have the tools and do research so you know what your doing its really not that hard. I bought this book on how to build high performance LS1/LS6 engines and the book has step by step instructions with pictures on how to do everything. I think it was $25. Best money spent!
Get the "haynes" manual for 93-02 camaros.. its like $15
then they have the "How to build Ls1/Ls6" book, it has a blue cover and a picture of a ls1 engine on it.. also at autozone for $24.99
all you need is the haynes book because you need to know what the torque values are for everything your removing or installing..
then go to ls1howto.com and it basically walks you through doing a H/C install with lots of pictures and what tools to buy and it makes it pretty easy.. even though I know how to do it all now, I still use it as a reference because of the pics..
then they have the "How to build Ls1/Ls6" book, it has a blue cover and a picture of a ls1 engine on it.. also at autozone for $24.99
all you need is the haynes book because you need to know what the torque values are for everything your removing or installing..
then go to ls1howto.com and it basically walks you through doing a H/C install with lots of pictures and what tools to buy and it makes it pretty easy.. even though I know how to do it all now, I still use it as a reference because of the pics..
