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 Post subject: Cam install success.............
PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2001 9:58 pm 
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Well I just returned from doing the cam swap in my car. It took right around 9hrs at a very slow relaxed pace. I also resealed the rear diff, and changed the oil.

Initially the only hard part was just the removal of the radiator. It is a pain in the Arse! Everything else is very straight forward for the removal. I was very concerned with the lifters staying up as I had 2 that wanted to keep falling. Once I rotated it about 50 times they seemed to stay up so I went for it.. It made all kinds of noises coming out that had me worried. The new one went in without a stop. Be forwarned the cam is sharp!!!!!


Got it all together and filled the radiator. Started it up and it loped like a NHRA dragster and was hard to keep running. It was found out to be a loose plug wire:) Then the car had a bad knock, tick or whatever.. I thought it was a rocker arm. Once the oil got to it it went away. Then the car overheated. I forgot to purge the air out of the system.. It took another gallon...


The car seems to idle the same with a noticeable lope from the rear of the car(The loudmouth just got louder) I did not really notice a difference in the power, but John and Dave drove it and said it pulls harder above 3k.

Well overall I am tired, cut, sore.......But really happy all went well..... Thanks for the help John and Dave.......


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Very nice...Congrats :D

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Alright!
Congrats on the install, and BTW my wife forgot to mail the package, so I'll ship the lite off next week.

Rob


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Good job George and welcome to the elitest LS1 Cam Swap Clup. Where any can join as long as the push the cam in.


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Yeah it pulls like a mofo after 3k. Whole front end lifts off the ground just about. Feels like a VTEC or somethin.

G we gonna have to go crusin now for sure..............


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Yeah it pulls like a mofo after 3k. Whole front end lifts off the ground just about. Feels like a VTEC or somethin.

G we gonna have to go crusin now for sure..............


Damn I did not realize my car pulled like a V-tech. Well as far a cruisin I am here all day.. Give me a call....


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kinda a weird, but since you put the Vtech motor in your car George, there was a post about it in cz28.com. For everyone that wants to know more about the Vtech in George's car check this out http://www.howstuffworks.com/question229.htm

BTW did you just change 1 cam? :-ok:


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 Post subject: Here is a few video clips of it.....
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Idle = http://fbodyeurope.org/gallery/9_MOV00002.MPG

Rev to 3,000= http://fbodyeurope.org/gallery/9_MOV00001.MPG


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nice!! won't be long until I'm swapping things too!!

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You know what I was tryin to say! ;) It was like it opened up another cam or something to that effect after 3k.

I used to own a VTEC but I WAS NOT NO RICER!


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Yes it Was and you were a Riceboy !!!!
Banging your music from your damaged speakers and pretending to be R-kelly sitting on your passenger seat :)
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Here's a sound clip of my cam...
Hot Cam

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no worky for me.


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Whooz? Mine or G's? Try to right click on them, hit save as, then when it is saved to your puter, open it.

That usually wurks

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Whooz? Mine or G's? Try to right click on them, hit save as, then when it is saved to your puter, open it.

That usually wurks


still no worky, I cant get on your page either. Must be some construction on the superhighway this morning.


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Hmmmmmmmmm, strange...
try this then...

http://www.fbodylinks.com/sounds/hotcam.wav

I just checked my site and it wurks fer me!?!?!

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Here's a sound clip of my cam...
Hot Cam

Wow ... 3MB .wav ... maybe you should convert it to mp3 ... :) (at 30k/s I don't really care, but those ISDN/Modem users ...) Sounds nice, though ...

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LoL, yeah...it's kinda long :D I forget not everyone has a cable modem ;)

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OK, OK...

Here it is as a MP3...

Hot Cam

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