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I had a LT1 that was modded. The harder you work the valve train the more friction you make. Then with more friction comes more heat. These engines run hotter at idle anyway, so now you have a cooling issue. I still want a/c and all the goodies so keeping the engine cool in town was always a challenge on a hot summer day. I want to drive the car with little worries as possible. You just open up a new can of worms with more friction. I am probably older than most of you guys (48) I am now more about show than go. That is why I searched for over a year to find this car. It has 35000 miles on it and I have all paper work that was done at dealer from original owner. Every oil change, window sticker, build sheet, copy of invoice from dealer and all. I am just looking for easy horsepower. I don't need much. Tkanks for all input. It has been helpful. Barney
I ask in earnest, why would you have to pull the motor? Sure, you'd need some room in front, like having the radiator out, but on other vehicles I've heard of people doing cam bearings with it inside the car. That and pulling the motor out isn't all that much work for some people, so for the extra peace of mind that the bearings won't take a crap later on, it's not a huge deal heh
Have you changed these out before?
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I had a LT1 that was modded. The harder you work the valve train the more friction you make. Then with more friction comes more heat. These engines run hotter at idle anyway, so now you have a cooling issue. I still want a/c and all the goodies so keeping the engine cool in town was always a challenge on a hot summer day. I want to drive the car with little worries as possible. You just open up a new can of worms with more friction. I am probably older than most of you guys (48) I am now more about show than go. That is why I searched for over a year to find this car. It has 35000 miles on it and I have all paper work that was done at dealer from original owner. Every oil change, window sticker, build sheet, copy of invoice from dealer and all. I am just looking for easy horsepower. I don't need much. Tkanks for all input. It has been helpful. Barney
Again, I'm not trying to insult you in any way. As for the bearing change, I'm sure 90% (I feel that a bit high though) don't. Yet if I were to do one, and my motor had over 80K on it, I would for sure do a change! My motor has been freshened up at some point in it's life though, so it most likely doesn't have the 96K my car does, so I most likely wouldn't do it if I ever cammed my car You're welcome to make a poll though heh You'd have to poll the Gen III+ section too, but I doubt any of them had heh
I had a LT1 that was modded. The harder you work the valve train the more friction you make. Then with more friction comes more heat. These engines run hotter at idle anyway, so now you have a cooling issue. I still want a/c and all the goodies so keeping the engine cool in town was always a challenge on a hot summer day. I want to drive the car with little worries as possible. You just open up a new can of worms with more friction. I am probably older than most of you guys (48) I am now more about show than go. That is why I searched for over a year to find this car. It has 35000 miles on it and I have all paper work that was done at dealer from original owner. Every oil change, window sticker, build sheet, copy of invoice from dealer and all. I am just looking for easy horsepower. I don't need much. Tkanks for all input. It has been helpful. Barney
Well I dont plan on goin too extensive with it, but I added headers, adding them really woke the car up! I couldnt believe the difference it made in the sound and the power! I went with LT headers BUT I agree with the Mac Mids considering emmisons..
But a tune will ALWAYS help, just make sure your NOT goin add anymore mods or you will have to go back and re-tune it...
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Well a trucks a whole different thing...prob a lot more room to get to them in the back. A friend of mine that has built plenty of LTx engines has ran two different cams in his LTx problem free with the stock bearings w/ over 100k on the motor. About 95% of the engines he has built for his customers they have not specified changing out any of the bearings nor has he had a call back with issues regarding them. I would say, "90%" is a little on the high side as far as how many of us folks actually swap them out with new ones. Prob closer to 70-75% if that. He did say changing the bearings in the back is something that really needs to be done with the motor out. If you can pull changing them out with it in the car BIG props to you man
Well a trucks a whole different thing...prob a lot more room to get to them in the back. A friend of mine that has built plenty of LTx engines has ran two different cams in his LTx problem free with the stock bearings w/ over 100k on the motor. About 95% of the engines he has built for his customers they have not specified changing out any of the bearings nor has he had a call back with issues regarding them. I would say, "90%" is a little on the high side as far as how many of us folks actually swap them out with new ones. Prob closer to 70-75% if that. He did say changing the bearings in the back is something that really needs to be done with the motor out. If you can pull changing them out with it in the car BIG props to you man
Just a thought I know everyone will hate this but why not get a used handheld tuner like HPP and just play with the "tune" urself for a bit before you decide if you want to do anything else, sounds like you are concerned about wrecking a low mile nice SS so that might be the way to go 4 U... You can adjust the tune for what Octane gas, RPM limiter, fan turn on temp, lots of little stuff, and then with a press of the button you can go back to stock settings too....
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its not about wrecking, its about reliability. I just want to do a couple of bolt on mods and I don,t know whether to spend 450 for a custom tune. I am thinking I will, I think it will run better when I get done.
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Well a trucks a whole different thing...prob a lot more room to get to them in the back. A friend of mine that has built plenty of LTx engines has ran two different cams in his LTx problem free with the stock bearings w/ over 100k on the motor. About 95% of the engines he has built for his customers they have not specified changing out any of the bearings nor has he had a call back with issues regarding them. I would say, "90%" is a little on the high side as far as how many of us folks actually swap them out with new ones. Prob closer to 70-75% if that. He did say changing the bearings in the back is something that really needs to be done with the motor out. If you can pull changing them out with it in the car BIG props to you man
Well a trucks a whole different thing...prob a lot more room to get to them in the back. A friend of mine that has built plenty of LTx engines has ran two different cams in his LTx problem free with the stock bearings w/ over 100k on the motor. About 95% of the engines he has built for his customers they have not specified changing out any of the bearings nor has he had a call back with issues regarding them. I would say, "90%" is a little on the high side as far as how many of us folks actually swap them out with new ones. Prob closer to 70-75% if that. He did say changing the bearings in the back is something that really needs to be done with the motor out. If you can pull changing them out with it in the car BIG props to you man
But if you can get a cam in w/o removing it, I don't think doing bearings is a HUGE feat, is it? Dunno, oh well It's good to hear they last a long time The front bearing takes most of the wear and that's the one to change while the motors in the car, if ya were to change any