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Originally Posted by ChuckLee
See your SNS cam for sale. Haha. Keeping original plans is hard bro! I've also gone completely new direction with my motor. Details to come in a week or less. Hey, how did your cam bearings look? Could you photograph them for me?
Here was the front cam bearing on mine:
Looks fine on top,
https://flic.kr/p/Ra14V5
And here is the bottom of Same bearing. Notice babbit is gone, hello copper. SUPPOSEDLY this is totally normal and shouldn't concern me. Lol. I don't know.
https://flic.kr/p/QDaSed |
Sorry man, like you saw, block is at the race shop getting prepped. The only cam bearing pic would be the one a few posts ago of the bare block. I had some copper showing but not quite that much. By what I've seen (and probably you too) on Ls1tech, it's pretty normal. I had 140k on mine, what was on yours?
What are you doing to yours now?
I've gone off the deep end on mine, full Callies stroker kit, all ARP fasteners throughout. I'm building the same bottom end the race shop uses on their 1,000 hp road course engines. The cam I initially spec'd (and am selling) was perfect for the stock displacement and bottom end but it too small for the stroker (and will give me way too high a dynamic compression for pump gas).
My bores are cleaning up perfectly at .005" so it looks this this time it'll be a 403 ci. I wanted to go 416 but the shop said if something goes wrong in that motor, the block will be done. With over $1,100 just in machine work on the block alone, I want to make sure I at least have a chance to do a rebuild or two, change pistons if I boost it later, whatever....
