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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:05 PM
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Well i finally got time to put my cam in. Here are some pics i took.

The cam is a comp XER 224/224 Duration .581/.581 Lift 114LSA, with Comp 918 springs, and manley 7.400 Pushrods.

All in all it took me about 20hrs to install the cam but some of it was spent trying to get a valve that we droped back out. And the rest was spent trying to figure out how to fit my hands back to 4,5,6,7,8 cyl's.

But its all done now the car runs great now it's time to see how it will do at the track.

















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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:36 PM
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congrats and nice work, looks good
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:38 PM
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Now you need some headers!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:38 PM
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Looks good. I did the same thing when I did my cam. Lots of pic's.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:40 PM
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Congratulations! Good job.

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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:40 PM
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Nice work, congrats on doing it yourself.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:43 PM
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hows that thing run w/ stock manifolds? i wann cam my car, but idk if ive got enough for headers too. i know they say headers come first, but i want that lopity-lope sound before headers
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:46 PM
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Nice pics, so what method did you use to hold up your lifters? You say you droped a valve, how far did it drop? Looks like you lucked out.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:55 PM
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i used air to hold up the valves but when compressing the spring to put it back on the valve the spring compressor hit the valve and it broke the seal.. got lucky tho.

it runs great with the stock manifold. i am sure it would be a lot better with headers but i got the cam as a hand me down so i paid about 200$ for everything needed to install it.

no tune yet and no codes on the motor.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:34 PM
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Damn man you gotta one hellofa steal. You said $200 for EVERYTHING? Nice!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:42 PM
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that is nice! good job navy!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by nokeman
Damn man you gotta one hellofa steal. You said $200 for EVERYTHING? Nice!
yea my step dad took the cam out of his car (free)
he had some push rods laying around(8 free $60 for 8 more)
also had a spare crank bolt(free)
buddy works at napa so got the gaskets for cheap($45)
springs($175)
new plugs($30)

paid a friend $10 to help me with the springs

and thats that.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:59 PM
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Hahaha way to pull strings...nice connections!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 09:12 PM
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navymith12 is your car an auto or a 6-speed?
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 10:10 PM
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An all too familiar sight. Congrats! It'll feel like a different motor now.
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free crank bolt? Bad ***!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 11:38 PM
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cool! ya'll will feel the difference. w/headers or without. just more w/ headers.


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That sucks having that ABS proportioning valve right there in the way. GM could have put it over on the wheel well to make the engine a littly easier to work on. What are those two hoses or tube going into the drivers side of the intake with the foil tape on them? It doesn't look like EGR or Nos. If you put the piston at TDC you can drop as many valves as you want with no problem and it doesn't matter which stroke your on. It's easy to place the piston at TDC with the plugs removed. You can put your old crank bolt back in and turn the crank with a wrench.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by eallanboggs
If you put the piston at TDC you can drop as many valves as you want with no problem and it doesn't matter which stroke your on. It's easy to place the piston at TDC with the plugs removed. You can put your old crank bolt back in and turn the crank with a wrench.
yea i know that know and did it for the rest of the cyl... and happened to have gotten lucky with the one i droped the valve on... it was not quite at tdc but close and than just brought the valve back up by turning the crank.

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What are those two hoses or tube going into the drivers side of the intake with the foil tape on them? It doesn't look like EGR or Nos.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 12:49 PM
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hey man are those the stock length pushrods?? If so is your valvetrain alot more noisey than before?? I have a TR 224 112 that i'm gonna install in my car..but everyone keeps tellin me to go with a pushrod thats slightly longer...
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