LS Engine with 2 cams
05-10-2013, 10:42 AM
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LS Engine with 2 cams Have some questions....dont be fooled by the title im not running dual cams im wanting to swap between cams easily and quickly for a street to track cam.
Anyway here it is on the LSX iron blocks is this possible.
To change the cam with the engine in the car without taking the heads off or any intake off eg dont need to remove the valley plate...yes i know this is easy but i want this to be fast and easier than the 30-60 minutes it would take.
Wanting to do it with a solid or a roller cam.
Can you slide a bar down to hold the lifters up from the front of the block?
or will the lifters simply stay held up in their buckets?
will the buckets work better with say tie bar lifters?
With the solid cam can you get solid lifters with a tie bar?
Basically wanting to run a cam on the street with 600 lift and a cam for the track with 900 lift and make it a simple job use a QTP cam plate so that it can be faster.
I want this to be so easy you can do it in 15-30min.
Yes i understand the radiator is in the way but that's not a prob.
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Anyway here it is on the LSX iron blocks is this possible.
To change the cam with the engine in the car without taking the heads off or any intake off eg dont need to remove the valley plate...yes i know this is easy but i want this to be fast and easier than the 30-60 minutes it would take.
Wanting to do it with a solid or a roller cam.
Can you slide a bar down to hold the lifters up from the front of the block?
or will the lifters simply stay held up in their buckets?
will the buckets work better with say tie bar lifters?
With the solid cam can you get solid lifters with a tie bar?
Basically wanting to run a cam on the street with 600 lift and a cam for the track with 900 lift and make it a simple job use a QTP cam plate so that it can be faster.
I want this to be so easy you can do it in 15-30min.
Yes i understand the radiator is in the way but that's not a prob.
www.wickedsupplements.com
Last edited by O.N.; 06-10-2013 at 03:38 AM.
05-10-2013, 12:01 PM
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You are already much faster than I am if you can swap a cam in 60 minutes, but the lifter buckets will hold them up for a cam swap, so no prob there.
600 to 900 lift might be a huge deal though. I guess you could set the engine up for the higher lift although I don't have a clue what it would take to get a 900 lift cam into an LS engine. That sounds like tall deck big block stuff to me. Running different rocker ratios would help to make that happen because you have to remove the rockers to swap a cam anyway. It all sounds like way too much to go through and the overall engine components would be so different that to make the bigger cam work right , the smaller setup would be such a miss match that it would be junk on the street.
The more I type the more impractical this becomes in my head. Id find something else to think about if I were you, But Good Luck!!
600 to 900 lift might be a huge deal though. I guess you could set the engine up for the higher lift although I don't have a clue what it would take to get a 900 lift cam into an LS engine. That sounds like tall deck big block stuff to me. Running different rocker ratios would help to make that happen because you have to remove the rockers to swap a cam anyway. It all sounds like way too much to go through and the overall engine components would be so different that to make the bigger cam work right , the smaller setup would be such a miss match that it would be junk on the street.
The more I type the more impractical this becomes in my head. Id find something else to think about if I were you, But Good Luck!!
