I believe aaron runs kiggly

 

Lol good cause I've had these cams in my car for 2 wks

 

Theirs one guy on here that dropped them in a buschur head. I wonder how his car is doing... it was just too darn close for my taste. Moral of this thread is always check it!

 

 

Yes, I meant the spring seats or as Dave refers to them as locators. I spoke to him when I was going to swap the valves out and he made sure I knew to have OEM spring seats. I don't do this stuff often so I appreciate his assistance otherwise I wouldn't have figured that out until I had a spring off.
I just posted this info cause I didn't want anyone else to possibly do the same thing.




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For sure michael! That's what this thread is for.... information. I'm putting my engine back in today.

 

Finally got the engine back in and running. The gsc 5041 spring set worked like a charm. I also installed the gsc seals and had plenty of clearance.

After degreeing the cams in it ended up 3 degrees retarded on the intake and 5 degrees retarded on the exhaust. FYI these cams pull 1 less inch of vac than my buschur cams but seem to idle smoother than the bf cams. Weird.....

I hope to get a good back to back test of my can swap in the next few weeks.

 

I thought GSCs had tight machining tolerances and were typically within 1*?

Reguiring 5* seems like that cam was out of spec. Or maybe you used a different method to determine lobe centerline then they intended?

 

No, 3 intake and 5 exhaust. My block and head has been milled so that's why they were a few degrees retarded. That's normal. The cams were only 2 degrees off of each other, give or take 1 degree of course.

So if I had a bone stock motor I would think these cams would go in straight up just as gsc says. Maybe 1-2 degrees off which I consider normal.

 

Milling the head 0.010" only accounts for like 0.2* of cam retard. It is hardly anything.

Could also be the accuracy of the cam gears.

I suppose either way it shows it is worth degreeing in the cams if you aren't going to tune the cam gears on a dyno.

 

Buschur thought it was a good idea to cut the head/ block so far that the pistons hit the head! I'm had to use a thicker Evo 9 hg to keep it from hitting so I would say my engine is off more than normal. I used adjustable cam gears but I didn't pay any attention to the marks. I degreed and set them. The "stock" marks weren't even close.