03-09-2015, 04:00 AM | #1 | |
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cam wear is this normal
This is the oem cam with 9000 miles on it. are these lines normal. i cant feel them with my fingernail. there on 2 lobes
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03-09-2015, 09:13 AM | #2 |
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none of my cams have come out looking like that.
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03-09-2015, 11:52 AM | #3 |
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I am no expert ,but with only 9000 miles and it being a stock roller cam that looks strange. What kind of oil are you using ? Are you warming the car up to temp B4 romping on it ?
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03-09-2015, 11:59 AM | #4 |
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That not oil related wear. You have some bad lifters causing that.
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03-09-2015, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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Looks like a chip from something got stuck under the roller. Does the roller have a flat spot.
This is why race blocks and heads get deburred. You don't want any tiny casting chips off the edges falling down on the cam. |
03-09-2015, 02:06 PM | #6 | |
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You have some debris in there. If it were a spun lifter it would have torn the camshaft up something fierce. Get her all cleaned up, swap that stick, and change the oil and filter a couple times. Good luck sir! Ivan @ Southwest Speed |
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03-09-2015, 03:19 PM | #7 |
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this is my stock cam that i pulled out befor i put the Night Fury cam in. GM installed this cam. I will be pulling the nf and changinging lifters.inspecting cam bearings.
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03-09-2015, 07:08 PM | #8 |
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Here is a pic of my cam after most likely 5-8 k stock.... I have been cammed since march of 2014 and have about 14.5-15k on my car, the stock cam was in from nov 2012 to mar 2014 and I drive about 5k a year usually..( have made some long road trips and love riding around now....
So no it is not normal (and this pic the cam still has some oil on it), I know you most likely had a problem before you swapped cams with those lines it did not help from most likely foreign objects in oil. I know this has to have Pissed you off, I would gladly give you my stock cam for free J . Good luck, and don't give up on the driven racing oil, TSP now recommends it along with a lot of others, and my cam is still going strong along with my stock oil pump and stock chain, and I know its more radical than the night fury, I use .675 springs and have .639/.623 with 235/239 and 112 lsa.
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03-09-2015, 09:14 PM | #9 |
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Kip from cam motion sent me a private message on here and I talked to him on the phone today about it. He thinks it was a problem with the junk in the stock cam. He recommended I change the lifter which i have ordered. LS7 lifters and ARP head bolts. GM gaskets. He also said if cam bearing were bad id know it by now.
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03-10-2015, 04:09 PM | #10 |
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03-10-2015, 06:57 PM | #11 |
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I have dual mode. Electric power steering. Stainless power headers with HFC, also a vmax and under drive pulley with CAI and scoop and a .639/.623 lift cam..... and the best tuner I could find who custom mapped my fuel curve and dyno tuned the car. And to put the thread back on course; Hey J: I would get a camera to look in your engine to inspect your bearings...they are easy to rent or even buy now to look inside a engine and inspect...like harbor freight may have one even to check the cam bearings just for giggles, they are just like a long flexible tube.. Good luck! Having a engine eat up the cam from deterioration should in effect send metal into the oil and can damage bearing surfaces amongst other things.
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03-10-2015, 07:58 PM | #12 |
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the good thing is i never found any metal in the oil and the blackstone report shows everythings normal. So I just recieved everything to do the lifters too. so cam and lifters. I have a mirror i can stick in there but ill look into renting a camera. I dont like returning things. maybe my brother could use a $275 rigid camera.
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03-12-2015, 06:07 PM | #13 |
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good luck J you deserve some that's for sure
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03-13-2015, 11:49 PM | #14 |
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Yeah good luck man!
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