I have been toying with the idea to do a Hotcam for about the past year. I am the type of person who thinks things over a hundred times before actually doing them. I want to put in the hotcam because I really want to have the lope at idle and the extra power. It is a decent kit and is very cheap. I do plan on doing a total rebuild and possible a LE2 kit in the future, but as far as right now I don't have the money and am going to be in Pharmacy school within the next year or so. I was just going to do the Hotcam but my dad says I might as well just take the whole motor out and freshen it up. If thats the case then I might as well do heads and cam and bore it .030 over. I figured I could do the Hotcam swap without pulling the heads or pulling the motor. If I would wait to do the whole motor rebuiled it would be at least two or three years if not longer before I would do it so I would get my money out of the Hotcam kit.

So here's my problem, should I go ahead and do the Hotcam kit this summer and just do that. Or should I just wait and do the whole rebuild with heads, cam and all in a few years.

 

If you have the intent of doing a full rebuild shortly down the road, I would just hold off and keep the funds saved towards that.

 

I'm in the same predicement....
CAM IT, AND DON'T LOOK BACK!

 

What he said. When you pull the motor, you start getting into the "while I am here" way of thinking. That is not bad but it can be costly. For me, that thinking took me from a $500 timing chain and valve job to a $5000 complete rebuild.

 

Well the more and more I think about it the rebuild will most likely not be until after I get out of Pharmacy school (about 5 years down the road). So if I did just do the cam with the motor still in the car it might not be as bad.