I was wondering why a timing gear drive can't be used on an LT1?

Or can it? It seems like someone has done it before.

Thanks

 

I think it's because of the water pump and/or Opti. I wouldn't want one on there anyway, I imagine it would create quite a bit of false knock.

 

It can be done pretty easily, but there aren't any real gains plus the fact the gear whine makes alot of false knock.

-Shannon

 

Search, it was discussed not long ago and comes up every now and again.

Its not needed in the car, and causes hassle - so ultimately, no reason to run it unless your looking at 10k RPM and expecting to run so close to the edge that you'd blow the engine if you had your timing off a degree.