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This is getting funny. Some of you guys act like degreeing a cam is some sort of high science.

I couldn't care less what you did 40 years ago. Giving a rookie advise like skipping simple check work is crap. It takes a very few minutes to due. Not doing it is just plain LAZY.

Try for more than 40 years. Experience works. Parts are probably closer to specs now than they were then and it worked then as it does now. You sound like one that thinks that every engine out there off the line has been degreed. Yep I am getting lazier by the year. You will to.




It is just poor advise to tell a newbie that it isn't needed. What if he gets off a tooth? Not hard to do when you don't have 40 years experience. I just hate to see something so simple get pushed aside. If he has a problem later, guess what, the installed centerline will be asked and he will have to pull it apart again to check. MUCH easier to do now.

Ever have a "factory freak" or a "dog"? Details do matter.




This is absolute nonsense. FIRST degreeing a cam won't do much good if you don't know what you started with. That is, it might run better on the factory marks, anyhow.

SECOND just because you didn't degree the damn thing does not mean you'll "get it off a tooth."

Please don't make fun of 40 years experience. Engines pretty much work the same way now as they did 40 years ago, WAIT!!! WAIT!!! WE ARE talking about a 40 year old engine!!!!


I'll guarantee you that the thousands of 340's 440's 383's and probably street hemi's that went down the production line NEVER SAW A DEGREE WHEEL. The factory assembly line folks slapped the sprocket "on the marks" and down the line it went.

AND ONE LAST TIME. If you get the cam "on the marks" degreeing will NOT do you any good until you have a baseline. Depending on whether this is a "torque monster" street engine or an RPM screamer, you won't know which way to push the wheel until you find the baseline.

From the sounds of the original poster, I doubt that he has access to a chassis dyno, and neither do most of the rest of us.