can you degree the cams with the heads off the car? or do you need to have the pistons and block to do it. and if anyone has a article on how to do it would be a great help
is it that big of a deal to degree them? I just orderd VT Stage 2 Blower cams and I wasnt going to degree them.
Don't even think about not degreeing your camshafts upon installation. It is a critical step. Doesn't matter if it's a Stage 1 or Stage 999 camshaft, they must be degreed.
At minimum, you will need a dial indicator, piston stop (spark plug hole), degree wheel, cam checking fixture, valve check springs.
For beginners attempting to degree a cam for the first time, Comp Cams makes a pretty good beginner kit. It is part # Comp Cams 4796.
EDIT: One more thing. I would also suggest gettting a set of adjustable cam gears. Without them it is nearly impossible to "dial in" teh camshafts correctly. Fidanza and Comp make some good ones.
they sure do...
i sold mine when i saw a thread on MD with several failures.
modcamponents makes a good set.
fidanza
The only way a billet cam gear fails is due to improper installation. Period....and don't even bother trying to tell us that they were installed correctly because I know better. Those are billet gears not cast, and it's even evident in your pictures due to the nature of that fracture that they were either significantly over torqued or you degreed the camshafts wrong. We know several Fidanza dealers here in Central and South Florida and trust me when I say this.... there are literally hundreds out Fidanza cam gears out there with not a single problem. We have installed Fidanza flywheels, clutches, and gears for years now without ant problems.
I can post pictures all day long of broken parts in our shop... Does that automatically mean that the company that made those parts is somehow incompetent or has a widespread problem with parts failing? The answer is no.
The only way a billet cam gear fails is due to improper installation. Period....and don't even bother trying to tell us that they were installed correctly because I know better. Those are billet gears not cast, and it's even evident in your pictures due to the nature of that fracture that they were either significantly over torqued or you degreed the camshafts wrong. We know several Fidanza dealers here in Central and South Florida and trust me when I say this.... there are literally hundreds out Fidanza cam gears out there with not a single problem. We have installed Fidanza flywheels, clutches, and gears for years now without ant problems.
I can post pictures all day long of broken parts in our shop... Does that automatically mean that the company that made those parts is somehow incompetent or has a widespread problem with parts failing? The answer is no.