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Old Aug 6, 2017 | 09:39 PM
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Trying to gather parts for my build, should I get a new ls7 timing chain sprocket and a katech c5R timing chain or a cloyes sprocket. Wasn't sure how good the stock ones were before spending all that money
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Stock are fine.

I'm running stock timing set and katech chain on my car. I bought a comp timing set, and it looked like junk compared to factory.
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agreed. i reused stock timing gears with a hinson c7r chain on my lsx build
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Trying to gather parts for my build, should I get a new ls7 timing chain sprocket and a katech c5R timing chain or a cloyes sprocket. Wasn't sure how good the stock ones were before spending all that money
Stock is perfectly fine. Been running mostly stock components in two different race cars and never had any problems whatsoever.
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Trying to gather parts for my build, should I get a new ls7 timing chain sprocket and a katech c5R timing chain or a cloyes sprocket. Wasn't sure how good the stock ones were before spending all that money
Stock sprockets are fine. We use stock sprockets with Katech C5-R chains on pretty much everything.
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