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Old Feb 28, 2007 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by civicized
That's a pile of links that don't tell you anything about what you are trying to do.

Here's the reality, knowing its a big cam, your tuner is going to ask you how much valve clearance you have so he can determine how much he can tune the cams. Are you going to tell him you saw some guys on Honda-Tech who said they were great cams?

He's going to shoot you the "WTF" look and again ask you, as the guy who assembled the motor, exactly what your setup allows him in the way of cam tuning latitude. If you can't tell him, and if he agrees to proceed, it would likely be with the understanding that he may find out exactly how much latitude he has when your engine grenades.

You can't answer a serious question posed by your tuner by giving him links to a bunch of posts where the only thing certain is that forum users there know how to make thumbs up and thumbs down avatars?

I will personally pack my tools and help you degree your cams and clay your engine, if you like. Just message me. I am very curious and the information will be valuable to me for future builds. I cannot, will not install a cam with extreme lift and duration based on incomplete or completely uninformed information. Neither should you. It's not professional. It's not smart.
Those were a pile of links saying that I should have no clearance issues using these cams, and when I get the cams which is still about 3 months away if I dont have the tools or knowledge to find the valve to valve clearances I'm dropping the head off at a trusted maching shop to measure for me, like I said I'm by no means a proffesional engine builder and I know that I'll do somethings that some poeple wont agree with but you cant make everyone happy, and I'm not taking any of your advice offensivly btw just as good criticism and you trying to gather more information on these cams
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