What is required to install a cam?
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What is required to install a cam?
I have heard that you need to also purchase Springs and Push rods because the stock ones won't work or will break.
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes....
This seems very high to me for just a cam install.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
[Modified by Kid, 5:37 PM 11/28/2001]
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes....
This seems very high to me for just a cam install.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
[Modified by Kid, 5:37 PM 11/28/2001]
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
I have heard that you need to also purchase Springs and Push rods because the stock ones won't work or will break.
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes.... This means i can't even get my underdrive pully.... :(
This seems very high to me.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes.... This means i can't even get my underdrive pully.... :(
This seems very high to me.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Nilla Ice)
Nilla,
regarding your idleing issue's. I have heard that drilling a hole in the throttle body will sometimes resolve this issue. Not sure of how big a hole, but it supposedly does the trick...
Hope this helps and thanks for the response....
Kid
regarding your idleing issue's. I have heard that drilling a hole in the throttle body will sometimes resolve this issue. Not sure of how big a hole, but it supposedly does the trick...
Hope this helps and thanks for the response....
Kid
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
Nilla,
regarding your idleing issue's. I have heard that drilling a hole in the throttle body will sometimes resolve this issue. Not sure of how big a hole, but it supposedly does the trick...
Hope this helps and thanks for the response....
Kid
regarding your idleing issue's. I have heard that drilling a hole in the throttle body will sometimes resolve this issue. Not sure of how big a hole, but it supposedly does the trick...
Hope this helps and thanks for the response....
Kid
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
I have heard that you need to also purchase Springs and Push rods because the stock ones won't work or will break.
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes....
This seems very high to me for just a cam install.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
[Modified by Kid, 5:37 PM 11/28/2001]
If this is the case, then just the cam, springs, and pushrods are going to run me $750 not including programming ($500 according to MTI) and labor which is going to be no less than $500.... yikes....
This seems very high to me for just a cam install.
I was under the impression that I could get a cam and underdrive pully installed for under $1500.
Is this accurate?
All opinions welcomed....
Kid
[Modified by Kid, 5:37 PM 11/28/2001]
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Nilla Ice)
I'm almost positive I could have gone with a 212/218 and experienced zero idling problems, but that was just too small for me! :)
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
I'm almost positive I could have gone with a 212/218 and experienced zero idling problems, but that was just too small for me! :)
Tony
HAHAHA I hear ya there...:D Better to have more than less.... :yesnod: I'll post with my results when i get them.....
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HAHAHA I hear ya there...:D Better to have more than less.... :yesnod: I'll post with my results when i get them.....
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
For sake of comparison, a few weeks ago MTI had a sale, where cam+relatedparts+install alone would be on the order of $1,100, without PCM reprogram. (see http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=179653). The sale is now over, so I don't know what it would cost without sale pricing. The MTI prices did not include a pulley, and I understand that a pulley install is cheap if you do it at the same time as a cam.
On a 6-speed, there's been much discussion of whether the PCM reprogram is required, and it seems like on some cams you can skip it and just drill a hole in the throttle plate.
So, the Speedworks price is on that order, and of course it's closer to you geographically. :)
By the way, does the Speedworks price include a reprogram? :confused:
[Modified by SteveL2, 6:20 PM 11/28/2001]
On a 6-speed, there's been much discussion of whether the PCM reprogram is required, and it seems like on some cams you can skip it and just drill a hole in the throttle plate.
So, the Speedworks price is on that order, and of course it's closer to you geographically. :)
By the way, does the Speedworks price include a reprogram? :confused:
[Modified by SteveL2, 6:20 PM 11/28/2001]
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (SteveL2)
If I lived in Texas, I would drive over to MTI and let them install it. Get a room for 2 days and a rental car and see the sights.
Want to do it yourself, follow this link:
http://www.torquecentral.com/mods/GM...ll/default.asp
[Modified by wallstAL, 11:44 AM 11/29/2001]
Want to do it yourself, follow this link:
http://www.torquecentral.com/mods/GM...ll/default.asp
[Modified by wallstAL, 11:44 AM 11/29/2001]
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Re: What is required to install a cam? (Kid)
Update.... Just talked to Dan at Speedworks. I found that I can have my Cam and UD pully installed for about $1750. That sounds about right. Speed comes with a price.... hahaha I can't wait.....
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