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disco said

Thanks again everyone, it's very interesting reading your thoughts on this, the cam was installed at the machine shop and I'm not sure if he degreed it, the springs and lifters were what was required by the cam card, because I used the Hughes 1.6 roller rockers the machine shop had to measure and send Hughes the numbers to make the pushrods.

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If the machine shop didn't degree the cam, I'd never set foot in there again.

You'd be surprised how many shops I've dealt with who can't degree a cam. I know this because their junk came through my shop and the cam timing would be off. Never trust a shop that doesn't itemize the assembly bill. I always gave a total (which started at a grand and went up from there depending on how big a PITA it was) and then called out what it cost to degree the cam, how many times I had to do a mock assembly, what the EXACT, MEASURED compression ratio is, what the exact, measured piston to valve clearance is and last but not least, where the intake lobe was center lined. Then there is no question about if the cam was degreed or not. Every single engine I assemble get the cam degreed. It's not a option. The customer has no say.