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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 07:34 AM
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I searched and found that it can be normal for my car to have a chatter or that sowing machine sound. but my question is my cam listed in the sig big enough to give this sound or is something wrong.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 10:10 PM
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The noise you hear is more than likely either valve trian chatter or the so called piston slap. I didn't have this intill I had my cam installed, which is smaller than your cam, the place that installed it said LS1s were bad for valve train chatter some more than others, I know mine is pretty load.
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:22 PM
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Old Jun 9, 2005 | 11:56 PM
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Oh yeah... the 231/237 cam is plenty big enough to give you that sewing machine sound. Seems like that's what you got for noise, so that's ok.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 02:36 AM
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These motors are known for sewing machine sound. I had it stock, but had a good amount of miles on the car.
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