Went to track and car is garbage
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From: TX
Car has 3.23 gears. I did get my valve covers pulled when I saw metal in my oil. Cylinder one rocker was the worst.The only other rocker besides one that was affected was number 4. I don't got pics of my rockers but It looke slike the rocker lifted up to high and hit the stud holdign it and place. ALso, the rockers are teh LT4 1.6 Roller Rockers.
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From: Grand Prarie,T.X
I didn't do any of the mods myself but I bought the car with its current mods and found them. I don't know for a fac that I have a LT4 hotcam but it my car sounds exactly liek the cars I have heard with teh hotcam. Also, on teh radiator, there is a GM performance parts sticker. I also have a fastchip sticker next to it. I have heard that 93s are tuned by Ed Wright if sent to Fastchip and he is a good tuner. Would my damdaged rockers ahve any effect on the car's power?
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From: Aurora, IL
You should be running better times then that. First, as mentioned above, you need to find out the exact mods your car has, otherwise everything is guesswork. Also, I would take your car to a different tranny shop that knows their way around the 4L60 transmission, manually shifting the automatic may not be helping your times either. I'm also assuming your car is up to date on its maintenance as well?
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I got some new rockers not long ago. My friend and I will be puttign them on shortly ( he is waiting for christmas break). The only soudn I hear from the valvetrain does sound a little it like ticking but everyoen seems to agree that its the injectors. If it is the rocker arms, I guess I'll find out soon enough when we get the new ones on.
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From: Orlando, FL
The Mods I have listed, I know I have. The Hotcam, I'm like 99% sure( unless a stock cam can somehow sound like a hotcam). I had to replace the opti and cap and rotor maybe 1,000 miles ago. It was just a remanfacutred opti( money kept me from getting a new one).The only thing that seems to be a problem is at low RPM, ( idle up to 2000) the car seems weak but once i get to 2000( or like 1800, 1900), it is fine. Don't know if it has aynthing to do with the cam since cam range is 1800-5800.
Last edited by Lt1Demon; Dec 3, 2006 at 08:01 PM.
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Well for one... I dont think the MSD is needed. You need to replace the rockers and check your other valve train pieces for damage. The tick may very well be an exhaust leak at the header flange. You really need to do some serious troubleshooting on this car to get it running properly. You're playing with fire driving around with metal shavings in the oil from damaged rockers.
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me and several others ran hot cams back in the day and we all ran low 12's on stocks heads tune etc... I even ran stock rockers and springs and went 12.0's
You need to sit down...go through it...see what you got and descide where you want to go.
What do you want to run? get a new set of springs, check pushrod length, get some rockers, gear tires, 93...sounds like your t.v. cable is out of adj. put a servo in the trans check the fluid....
Just go through the car and do what needs to be done....If you want it to run right you have to put the time into it. To me sounds like you bought somebody elses problem, they got tired of messing with it
take it one step at a time and everyone is here to help
Don't be mad at a bad track time...car has a lot more in it trust me
You need to sit down...go through it...see what you got and descide where you want to go.
What do you want to run? get a new set of springs, check pushrod length, get some rockers, gear tires, 93...sounds like your t.v. cable is out of adj. put a servo in the trans check the fluid....
Just go through the car and do what needs to be done....If you want it to run right you have to put the time into it. To me sounds like you bought somebody elses problem, they got tired of messing with it
take it one step at a time and everyone is here to help
Don't be mad at a bad track time...car has a lot more in it trust me
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From: Long Island
I can't believe some of you guys are saying his times are good, hes runnign slower then what I did with an electric water pump and a borla. I ran a 13.7 at 103 with a 2.2 60', and now with headers and roller rockers I run 13.3 at 108 with a 2.2 60' a hotcam car should easily, easily be in the 12s.
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Based on my experience, the JBA shorties really choke the engine at high RPM. They are a "step" design, with 1-1/2" primaries for the first couple inches, then open up to 1-5/8". Add to that what appeared to be a weld bead narrowing the port down even more (anti-reversion??) and they don't flow very well at high RPM.
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From: Akron, OH
yea i was gonna say those times are in no way good times. A friend of mine ran that in a 95 a4 hardtop TA, stock 3.23 gears, CAI, Cutout after cat, and hypertech programmer. ran 13.6. not sure on the mph i believe 102 or so.