I'm going to get new cylinder heads and a new camshaft for my Lt1, should I rebuild the engine while im at it?? Car has 66,000 miles.
Thanks

 

Lotta variables here. Were they hard miles with abuse, or easy miles with good maintenance. What type cam and heads are you doing? With good care and regular maintenance these engines can go 200,000 miles plus before rebuilds. So unless you are going to want a engine making 500 + hp, forced induction, nitrous, or reving the engine to 9 grand, your stock bottom end should be fine as long as regular maintenance was done, and there are no problems allready such as a blown head gasket, spun bearing or similar.



PS 9 grand is a

hth

andy schuck

 

After a head and cam install, you have a 50/50 chance of spinning a rod bearing. Seems like half of the people that swap them out never have a problem. But the other half seem to spin a bearing. I was in the unfortunate half. I didn't get 500 miles on it.

 

I really don't know if the car was abused, I got it of a dealer. Well I am getting the Lt1-Le2 head cam package from Heads/Cam Pack Tell what you guys think and if they are worth the $1650. Just trying to build a cobra killer . O yea any rebuilding kits you might recommend??

Thanks

 

anyone?

 

ttt