Well, its coming to be my "Camshaft Awakening" and I'm starting to have the nail biting worries about spinning.

I have worked on cars since I was 14, and am not afraid of the install, but a lil anxious about the unknowns. I have rebuilt RX-7 13B motors before, but never a piston engine and this will be my first time tearing one...err...laying one open.

I have read posts labeled "Post here if you did spin" and "post here if you didn't spin" but all I have come up with "be clean, and the rest is to chance"

I know to be super clean, and I will be following shoebox's write-up to the T, but this might helpmy apprehensiveness.

 

a friend of mine did

 

This poll has been done.

http://64.65.63.61/forums/showthread.php?t=322170

 

i have not , but the again i only spin to 6200 ish although it has seen 6500 a few times

ppl spin alot higher than that and thats when they usually spin a bearing

 

Negative, Ghost Rider.

 

Id say cam it, what the worst that could happen?

 

put in a gm847 cam on 92,xxx now have 94xxx and nothing yet. Even broke it in in oil that had been in the car for about 1500 miles.

 

Knock on wood, so far so good. Shift points set at 6400. And can say it won't spin one for at least 5 more months. It's sleeping in the garage till spring.

 

Im still good with my 847 spinning it to 6800 @ the track.

 

I did but it was from running it with sticky tires and higher speeds at a local roadcourse. I think if I would have put the money into the canton road race pan and a high volume pump up front the problem never would have happened. It is fixed now and has seen two track days since then and it is perfectly fine.

Looking back I would defintely do this again, I would put the money into the pan and pump up front though.

 

Not yet!

 

put cam and other mods in at 150,000 so far up to 160,000 and running great, but I set my rev. limiter to 6200 rpm's. to hold off on a rebuild...

 

Whoops... sorry I searched, but didn't come up with this post I guess.

I search before I post most times and try not to repeat. Thanks for the point in the right direction though Shoebox. You came through again.

That post was started in 2004 so I guess a recent one wouldn't hurt...even though it is redundant to some though.

 

You forgot option C in your poll,Yes i spun a bearing now Im enjoying my 383.....LOL

 

What about option D: I've been beating the stock short block like a Two dollar mule and the D@mn thing just won't break?



Mike