This is why you check the length BEFORE you install the cam.

 

But aren't they selling the cams as a general LT1 cam, not a year specific cam?

 

Yea, there is only one version of an LT1 cam, that I've seen anyway.

 

Its all great in theory to check this stuff before but guess what....most of us won't notice a small difference like that or even think to check it. You expect it to fit since you ordered it for the specific car/engine...

 

Pretty close to me. I live off saltz between sheldon and canton center. Yeah I'm gonna put the cam in one weekend when the weather gets a little warmer so probably sometime in april.

 

I had to cut my first cam's pin (CC306). Just butt it up against your factory cam,t/c end to t/c end and mark the difference. I used a dremel with a diamond cut off wheel, took like 30 secs. or sumin like that. Not for sure what the deal with length's being off from year to year but my LE2 cam was the correct length from CC

 

Comp Cams recommends checking the length of the dowel pin and you should, no matter if it is supposed to be the right length or not. That's just part of doing a cam install correctly.

 

Don't give bad advise, any decent machine shop has the proper tools to remove dowels.

 

sorry mommy, a hydraulic press and dent puller wouldn't touch it. it was not heated to keep from warping or messing w/ the hardness of the metal. it was eventually pushed back into the fuel pump eccentric, cut, pushed more till it hit again, etc.

I will keep my thumb in my mouth and off the keyboard from now on.

 

Best thing I've heard come out of your mouth.

 

Thank you for all your advise I went ahead and used a grinder to shave it down. I chamfered the edges with a file to look something like the stock cam.
I can't wait to get this cam in and get it back together.

Thanks again,
-Greg