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2012 Chevrolet Caprice PPV
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@folkenheath FTW
I highly recommend buying parts from this fella.
Support your local small speed shops!
I highly recommend buying parts from this fella.
Support your local small speed shops!
Glad he was able to work out a good deal for ya.
Bro gets it done quick and accurately with competitive prices or better. Can't beat that!
I try to buy all my big speed part purchases from Heath
Thank you and glad I could help, this is such as awesome DD.
Did you get that hot for teacher cam chop?
My father had a 6.0 in a truck with a cracked flexplate that was totally playing the hot for teacher when it idled, but he wasn't as proud of that sound.
Stock LS3 cam, but I'll tune it with some chop. I'm going for reliability and low cost, not trying to impress the boomers and broccoli boys at cars and coffee.
You have the hp tuners?
Yup. Gonna borrow the dongle and login info from my buddy again. I have all the tune files from Charles Barber saved on my laptop. He's great about doing tune adjustments for free after the initial tune purchase.
I know what you mean, was just being funny. I only build my truck to impress me and make me happy.
Oh I'd love to have a big old nasty chopmaster 9000 in this thing with a loose stall and deep rear gears, maybe stick a procharger on it or slap on a pair of Hiroshima hairdryers. But it's just a daily commuter.
Tokyo twisters can easily be a daily!
Hell yeah brother
I recommend this
Did you know GM Performance Parts uses the same packaging for their camshafts as Pillsbury does for Grands biscuits?
I guess that's what I get for trying to save some dough.
The dowel trick I learned from the youtubes worked really well. I cut in half a 5/16" x 48" dowel, sanded down the ends a bit, and spun the factory cam around several times to get the lifters up. Inserted the rods, slid the old cam out, and slid the new cam directly in its place.
Pulled out the dowels, and voila! Cam swapped.
No photos of that, since me and my boy's hands were covered in sticky assembly lube. Next up is to install the new cam gear, a 1 bolt style to fit the LS3 cam.
In order to replace the stock 2017 L96 springy cam chain tensioner with a solid LS2 style, I have to remove the oil pump. To do that, I need to remove the oil pump pickup tube. To do that, I need to remove the pan.
And now I am concerned that my timing chain may be too long. We will hopefully soon find out.
Here's what it looked like before the cam removal, as reference.
I guess that's what I get for trying to save some dough.
The dowel trick I learned from the youtubes worked really well. I cut in half a 5/16" x 48" dowel, sanded down the ends a bit, and spun the factory cam around several times to get the lifters up. Inserted the rods, slid the old cam out, and slid the new cam directly in its place.
Pulled out the dowels, and voila! Cam swapped.
No photos of that, since me and my boy's hands were covered in sticky assembly lube. Next up is to install the new cam gear, a 1 bolt style to fit the LS3 cam.
In order to replace the stock 2017 L96 springy cam chain tensioner with a solid LS2 style, I have to remove the oil pump. To do that, I need to remove the oil pump pickup tube. To do that, I need to remove the pan.
And now I am concerned that my timing chain may be too long. We will hopefully soon find out.
Here's what it looked like before the cam removal, as reference.
Well fellers, looks like I need a new (shorter) timing chain.
