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Where's the TVS?

574

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I'm going back to southbend the weekend of feb the 8th. I can either send you the valve spring compressor then or me you and kyle, maybe ryan can meet up at bass pro to hang out and I could give it to you there

Hockeyman

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RB - You may want to consider injectors larger than 80#, will save you some trouble down the road when you ditch the m62. I'm bored with my build from last March already and have to upgrade to ID1K or FIC1200 when the TVS goes on, annoying.

riceburner

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bass pro in illinois near kyle/ryans area? id be down for that!

574

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It's in portage, about half way between southbend and chicago

riceburner

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ah wait. the 8th i'm gonna be in wisconsin for my aunts weeding

are you sure i have to use that compressor?? the book says to use some universal one. we have 4 at our shop we can use

riceburner

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alright, just got the head on monday and the cams just arrived at my work.

also ordered new oem valves, retainers, and some exhaust manifold studs/nuts for the new head.

so set on kill... hoping to start this weekend

574

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Mine is only needed when head is on the car. You can a universal one with the head off. Your the one who asked to borrow it lol

riceburner

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Oh well if i can take the head off without taking off the valspring stuff then wed be ok

574

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Lol yes your fine

riceburner

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K sweet ill let ya know if for some reason i still wind up needing it then. Just so low on build moneys

riceburner

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My friend keeps bringing up new things for me to worry about.
If we pull the cam caps off of my existing head and swap em onto the new head, im gonna have to get those checked for clearance at a machine shop, he says. Or get new caps.

I keep saying according to you guys, many of which are either experts or atleast have been down the road of building an ecotec, are saying to reuse pretty much every stock component. But hes not convinced, and i simply dont know enough to inform him one way or the other. Anyway he gaurantees me if i just slap my cam caps onto the new head my motor will self destruct in less than 100 miles

P.s., my friend/s arent retards, they speak the motor language very fluently, but none have dealt with 4cyl ohc motors yet. Their into big v8 n20 power haha

Staged, i know you swapped cams onto your stock head and reused you cam caps no problem, and im quite sure you reused all your stock components on your new head, correct? Hockeyman, 574, what about you guys?

mrbelvedere

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why would you use cam caps that did not belong to that head and yes they are right you will have to get the cam bores re line honed you always keep the caps and head as a matched set

TStone

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Everyone always says to use the cam caps that came with that head.....

however, I know "someone" who didn't and they were perfectly fine.. cough cough. I'm NOT recommending you do this, or saying it WILL work. I'm just saying it's been done without problems.

If it worries you that much.. then take it to a machine shop and they'll get it all fixed yup

574

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I sent my head out to be ported so I wasn't dealing with two..

TStone

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I went over to Joshes and mixed yours all up though

574

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Lol my caps were at my place the whole time! Heads could have been mixed though

Omiotek

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re use the same cam caps on the head.

riceburner

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/\which ones? I dint think the cam caps are on the new head, i do have a bag of parts however they may be in there lol

I wonder what the machine shop would want to rehone them and how long that will take...

Fml

TStone

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Call em and find out. May have to take a head in for them to give a better estimate.

and use the original cam caps that came with that head

Omiotek

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yeah I mean the cam caps should be the original ones kept in the SAME order

riceburner

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Yeah i gotta find and order the caps and inspect them for damage maybe clean em up a bit make sure theres no edges

I know they are laying around somewhere

TStone

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order....?

riceburner

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Apparently the caps are numbered im hoping they are otherwise idk lol

574

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They are