ls1chris

well i decided to go ahead and tear in to the car last night after work .removed the ac and radiator last night.got up today started tearing the top end down ran into some trouble with the harmonic balancer but finally got it off so here she is now.hopefully tommorw ill start to remove the old cam and install the new ..not to bad dirty for a 82k motor


Thanks to bdr_ws6 for coming along and leading a hand




Me giving it hell lol




zach and dad working away

bdr_ws6

The balancer/pulley was being a *****, not just "a little trouble" I'll be up again tomorrow and we'll continue riping that thing apart. Get the heads off and start on swaping the cams.

NC98Z

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You better take out the plug on theside of the block and get that coolant drained out first.

marv

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Or use a shop vac on the water pump holes in the front of the block...worked good for me...

brad8266

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Why? thats not needed on a cam swap. I didnt see a mention of a head swap.

brad8266

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Why did you pull the manifold off? You could have left that on for a cam only swap.

tuffass

Yeah, i'm curious why you guys are taking the intake/heads off for a cam swap?

marv

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Well, I questioned that myself...but, didn't say anything...

But if you're removing the heads for a cam swap, you're creating a LOT of extra work...

brad8266

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The intake didnt even need to come off, all you should have done for cam only is take all the stuff off the front of the engine, not the top with the exception of pulling the valve covers to get the pushrods out but that quick and simple.

If you are only doing a cam you just created a whole **** load of extra work and parts buying for yourself. If you pull the heads you will need new head gaskets, head bolts, and you might as well put some nice new lifters in too.

NC98Z

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Because I read the second post where he said he was taking the heads off. I figured he was gonna change the lifter too.

ls1chris

im taking the heads off to clean them up a little bit and do some port and polish work on them..the intake is gettin replaced with a bbk ssi intake also .basically im doin a complet top end ,lifters ,pushrods,springs, cam etc just goin to refreshen the whole top end .im i also took the headers off to clean them up some had some surface rust on them so i figured why not

MightyBobo

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Hell, might as well get some nice redone LS6 heads while they are off then, to be honest...that's what I'd have done...

bdr_ws6

We took the headers down so we could access the 5 head bolts that are impossible to get to if they were left on. Heads are coming off to change lifters, change springs and maybe do a little work to them. Can't change lifters or springs with the heads on the car

brad8266

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Make sure you put the right pushrods in, dont use 7.4's

brad8266

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Springs can be changed with the heads on the car, the lifters cant be though.

ls1chris

why shouldt i use the 7.4s pushrods thats what tsp recomended for my application.and they cam in the cam package i got from them ..am i missing something?

brad8266

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They are too short. Your lifter preload will be way low

DSRCAM

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sup ppls were doing the same mods and man it was a pain in the *** to take off the heads with the headers welded to the exhaust ill take some pics of u wanna see what the block looks like without heads?? but man good luck on the install ill being doing mine also pretty soon but taking the 806 heads to get race ported and put a tsp 233/239 cam

bdr_ws6

I see you've posted up the new pictures since we've got the heads off. Man those were a bitch. Should have just pulled the motor from the start haha

Irocss85

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just an FYI for you guys, if the pushrods say 7.400 on them, they will actually measure 7.423". I ended up goin with 7.350" cause of my milled heads/cometic 040 gaskets and they measuered 7.373" with my digital calipers. stock was 7.398" same measurement.