Well, after almost two weeks working on the car at night, I finished installing the following:

VHP Accererated lift 1.8 rockers
Crane dual valve springs with titanium retainers
New pushrods
JWIS timing chain
GMPP timing chain damper
VHP Boss II cam
ATI 10% underdrive balancer

With much trepedation, turned the key it fired up and I had 45 psi of oil pressure very quickly. Very noisy for a few minutes but quieted right down. Car is now cooling overnight, we'll see how it runs tomorrow

 

Nice work. Hope it all works out well.

 

While it's still fresh, any advise or tips for us other C5 guys getting ready to do a cam swap?

 

Make sure you have all your parts ahead of time. I also got some rubber vacuum covers and put them over the power steering lines when I removed them from the steering rack. Didn't lose hardly any fluid. I also picked up two new o-rings for the power steering fittings.

I separated the fans from the radiator first. Slide toward the drivers side, lift the passenger's side and then the driver's side. I also took lots of photo's and notes so if a problem came up I could go back and look. I also used some Redline assembly lube, dissolves very fast in oil and has no particulate in it. It was a lot of work, but I am much more familiar with the motor now and it wasn't particularly hard.