How many people have or are running this? I never go to the track and I never race so it won't be under that much stress.

 

i go to the track. i drive pretty hard. i have a stock timing chain

 

a hotcam can potentially break a lt4 Extreme duty timing chain....i would not risk it. it's one of those 50/50 things

 

if you look at it that way, a stock cam could break a timing chain, and has. i could spin a bearing tomorrow for all i know. maybe my rear end would give out.

lots of things may or may not happen. considering my car is a dyno ***** and i dont go to the track/race ever, I believe that a stock replacement chain would suffice. considering the difference in price between that and an lt4 ED set....

im just looking for others who may concur.

 

I'm still running the stock timing chain and gears and I've had 593 rwhp for the last 35K miles.

 

I put a fresh OEM timing set when I did my cam a month ago. I also have a Hotcam. I'm only shooting for ~400 hp car, and I even think that number is just fine for a stock timing set. I don't think that's too much to ask of a stock timing set.

 

I have had the stock oem replacement timing set since 1998 (70,000 miles). When I pulled my motor last weekend my gears had minor wear. The chain also had very little wear and streching of the chain. I am putting a stock replacement back in my rebuilt motor.

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sounds good to me. where did you guys pick up another oem timing set? dal?

 

I ordered mine from GMPartsdirect.com

 

I am running the cc306 (much bigger than the hotcam) and my friend is running the gm847. Both of us are on stock oem replacements and I spin to 6500, he spins to almost 7000.