Cam re-grind

bighammer said

Okay.. Thank you all for the input. I'm re-thinking this whole cam thing, whether or not it is anything I want to do. I don't want to pull the heads and all the associated additional stuff, machining, etc., just to install that particular cam. The car is street driven only!

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I can understand not wanting to do it, but pulling the heads really isn't a huge job. That way you can look at the cylinders somewhat, and have new head gaskets too. It's one of the very first things I did with my car when I bought it. It had 80,000 original on the engine, so I wanted new head gaskets for my own piece of mind, because I knew I'd be rapping on it some.

With that said, if you were to go with just a little less lift (under .500), you can get away with that fairly easily. You will still need to change valve springs but that can be done with the heads on if that's the route you go.