To degree or not to degree? That is the question!

For a street engine degreeing the cam is only verifying that everything was made right so the cam events are happening where the cam manufacturer designed them to happen.

I hear of people that have stuff off 4 or more degrees. Personally I have never seen anything that is more than a 1/2 degree off. If you have the cam degreeing wheel and a dial indicator (or can borrow them) it only takes 20 minutes or so to check and gives you piece of mind. If you don't, the probability of being off enough to be noticable is very low and I would take the bet its not.