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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Can't stop thinking about cams. Advice wanted.
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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Company" data-source="post: 15666003" data-attributes="member: 141815"><p>The engine has to be dropped down to remove the driver's side valve cover or remove the brake master cylinder and brake booster. The amount of labor is very similar in each case from what people in the know say about doing this mod. Most say it is actually quicker and easier to remove the engine. Bill Wise works on these cars a lot and is down in Silver Spring on Columbia Pike, B A Performance. Give him a shout and I think he will tell you it will be easier and less labor to remove the engine to do cams than doing them with the engine in the car. JDM Engineering is in Freehold NJ which isn't as far as you think from you. I'd bet they'd want to drop the engine also. </p><p></p><p>At the power levels you're going, the OPG change is necessary in my mind, along with the passenger side secondary tensioner, HD secondary chains and sprockets. If you ever plan on a WOT box you'll need billet crank sprocket with billet primary chains guides and tensioner arms and the 8mm pivot pins.</p><p></p><p>To have a failure of any one of these parts is extremely costly. A little extra spent now could save you tens of thousands of dollars later. You're also approaching the point of a rod failure at the power levels you want to achieve. You may be better suited to save the money for a built engine at a later time, instead of pushing this one to the limits of having a catastrophic and costly failure in the not too distant future. Yeah the cams will sound nice now.......but a rod going through the block at a later time won't. Take this from someone that has experienced a catastrophic engine failure</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bad Company, post: 15666003, member: 141815"] The engine has to be dropped down to remove the driver's side valve cover or remove the brake master cylinder and brake booster. The amount of labor is very similar in each case from what people in the know say about doing this mod. Most say it is actually quicker and easier to remove the engine. Bill Wise works on these cars a lot and is down in Silver Spring on Columbia Pike, B A Performance. Give him a shout and I think he will tell you it will be easier and less labor to remove the engine to do cams than doing them with the engine in the car. JDM Engineering is in Freehold NJ which isn't as far as you think from you. I'd bet they'd want to drop the engine also. At the power levels you're going, the OPG change is necessary in my mind, along with the passenger side secondary tensioner, HD secondary chains and sprockets. If you ever plan on a WOT box you'll need billet crank sprocket with billet primary chains guides and tensioner arms and the 8mm pivot pins. To have a failure of any one of these parts is extremely costly. A little extra spent now could save you tens of thousands of dollars later. You're also approaching the point of a rod failure at the power levels you want to achieve. You may be better suited to save the money for a built engine at a later time, instead of pushing this one to the limits of having a catastrophic and costly failure in the not too distant future. Yeah the cams will sound nice now.......but a rod going through the block at a later time won't. Take this from someone that has experienced a catastrophic engine failure [/QUOTE]
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