i want to put a cam in my car . but i have a 112xxx miles on it . do you think its to many miles on the motor to do a cam

thanks
jason

 

Nah, stick one in there.

 

i was hoping some one would say that

 

Hey, as long as you have good oil pressure - why not. Obviously put a new timing chain and valvesprings on it. I also did my front cam bearing too. Apparently the water pump drive puts alot of strain on that bearing. Mine was really worn. I spin the crap out of this thing and it just keeps getting faster.

 

Just be clean about the install. Too many guys do a cam/head swap and don't follow a cleanleness pattern and end up getting crap in the motor causing a spun bearing shortly there after. At 112,000 miles go for it.
HVY SS

 

My first swap was at 113,000 miles. I pulled the motor and we swapped out for fresh cam bearings. The front cam bearing looked pretty bad, but the rest looked pretty good. No problems here and I've swapped cams again.

 

Its kind of hard to tell the state of the motor without being there, but if it revs good, has no ticks/taps, doesnt burn oil/ coolant etc.. Should be allright. Just make sure your not putting a cam in an already tired motor then your looken for trouble, and probably wasting your time.

 

no tick or taps . it has good oil pressure for having a 112,xxx it runs very well . what would be a good cam for my car . it a bolt on car i also have a th400 with a 3200 stall so its not a ever day car . i want something that good for 1/4mile and i want to hear i have a cam in it to


thanks for the help guys
jason

 

What gear do you run?

 

no gears yet working on getting some 3.73. i dont want to go to crazy with the gears cause i only have a th400

 

Well, you can always go with a custom grind, or an off the shelf cam like the XE 230/236, or the new XFI series cams. Mine is a bit on the small side but you can really hear it at 725 rpms where I have my idle set. It makes a boat load of torque and would work great with a 3.73 and 3200.

 

ok sounds good onces i finish my th400 install i guess its on to the cam

 

how big of a pain in the but is it to do a cam swap. an is there anything i should know about doing it

 

Since you are going to be pulling the tranny anyway.....yank the motor, it will be soooo much easier to do the cam swap when it is out. And, as long as it is out, replace the cam bearings and pop on a new oil pump. GM pump is perfectly fine. Then you will likely have no problems and be good to go for another couple of hundred thousand miles.

 

i would have done that but im almost done the swap