HKS STEP1 264 degree Exhaust Cam

[HybridOne]

so all i have is the exhaust cam. And i'm thinking of just putting it in. Or selling it to someone with an intake cam. I don't think it'll be so bad running a stock intake cam and stage 1 exhaust cam.

[need2drift]

wont work, sell it to me for cheap!!!! ha ha ha just jokin but I would be interested if you do want to sell.....

[HybridOne]

e-mail me [email protected] if you are interested. I don't wanna put it in my car if i don't have the matching one. It's new and still in the box.

[mynismo]

yea put both in, because you are doing double work once you get the other one.

[ItzGenX]

It only takes 10 minutes to swap out cams. I don't see what's wrong with staggering cams. People do 256 or 264 in cam and then have a 272 exhaust.

[RMiller]

It only takes 10 minutes to swap out cams.

Hahahahaha. Sure with air tools and a reckless disregard for the well being of your engine. My God, have you ever changed cams before? Don't exaggerate so much, it's an hour job, at least, to do it carefully if you know what you're doing.

[HybridOne]

i've pulled my valve cover about 20 times in the last week to adjust timing. I don't think i wanna see my cams again for a few months. i'll prolly just sell it.

[tonis56]

how much for the cam shipped??

[ItzGenX]

Hahahahaha. Sure with air tools and a reckless disregard for the well being of your engine. My God, have you ever changed cams before? Don't exaggerate so much, it's an hour job, at least, to do it carefully if you know what you're doing.

This means you obviously DON'T know what you are doing. I am not turning this into a flame wars, but you do not have to have the kindergarden shining chain links to set your cam timing. If you know how to set your motor at TDC and count chain links, then you should be set. The key to the trick is to put the exhaust cam KEYWAY at 12 o' clock with all the slack pulled out of the chain. Then from the mating mark on the exhaust cam sprocket, count 20 rollers in between the intake sprocket mating mark. DONE! Bust out the torque wrench and tighten to 8.5 foot pounds in the correct sequence, slap on the valve cover and the job is done all before the coffee pot starts boiling. I have been working on SR's for over 4 years.

[HybridOne]

i would sell it for 175 shipped i guess. i paid retail for it.

lemmie know if you are interested.

[RMiller]

This means you obviously DON'T know what you are doing. I am not turning this into a flame wars, but you do not have to have the kindergarden shining chain links to set your cam timing. If you know how to set your motor at TDC and count chain links, then you should be set. The key to the trick is to put the exhaust cam KEYWAY at 12 o' clock with all the slack pulled out of the chain. Then from the mating mark on the exhaust cam sprocket, count 20 rollers in between the intake sprocket mating mark. DONE! Bust out the torque wrench and tighten to 8.5 foot pounds in the correct sequence, slap on the valve cover and the job is done all before the coffee pot starts boiling. I have been working on SR's for over 4 years.

I saw a video of a guy shooting 8 rounds in under 1 second, then 8 rounds, reload 6 and fire 6 more rounds in under 3 seconds with a revolver. Does that mean that's how much time it takes to do it what he did?

I'm glad you know the SR so well. I happen to know the CA decently well, and forgetting about the chain vs. belt thing and assuming it takes virtually no time at all to set tdc and place the cam in the correct location (realistically, a minute or 2, you have 8 or 9 minutes left), there's still the matter of unscrewing the valve cover (covers for the CA, but who cares), unbolting the Cam brackets in the correct order, replacing the new cams (by the way, I have a habit of oiling up surfaces before I throw stuff together, maybe it's a bad habit that's a waste of time), then torquing the brackets to spec and bolting the valve cover back on. Oh, and you have a coilpack cover and coilpacks to take off first, right?

I spoke up because people throw unrealistic figures around all the time. Most people that don't race against the clock like you will take an hour to do this. 10 minutes is like the time I spend on the crapper. It's nice to see people that are really in their element on here, it must make you proud.

[RMiller]

I have been working on SR's for over 4 years.

You know what this says to me? It says you did an SR swap in your garage 4 years ago and have been doing your own labor ever since. You may have helped some friends do their swaps as well. Now you're king, right? I may or may not be right about this, and I don't care either way, but it's true for most people on here.

[ItzGenX]

You know what this says to me? It says you did an SR swap in your garage 4 years ago and have been doing your own labor ever since. You may have helped some friends do their swaps as well. Now you're king, right? I may or may not be right about this, and I don't care either way, but it's true for most people on here.

Well actually yes you are right for some of it. I dont have a garage though . Also as to helping friends on their swaps, that's a yes if you count tearing motors down completely. I rebuilt all of them prior to going in. The only thing I didn't do personally was the machining. I've also done many cam swaps and corrected cam timing for many SRs both RWD and FWD. I for one though am not King and do not think in such stereotypical manners. People with EGO's annoy me. If I personally pulled out all the regular needed hand tools and set them out prior to starting a cam job and showed you personally how I do it, you would probably think differently on how to do cams. "To each his own" There's many ways to do almost any job. The FSM for example is a drawn out long way map on how to do things for the people who never tackled such a job, hence a 1-2hr cam job. There are "safe" shortcuts for the jobs just so long as you understand how the shortcuts work (more room for error if you don't understand it). It is like taking mapquest.com directions which takes 10hrs, or take a friend's directions and do it in 6hrs to make it to the same destination.

[need2drift]

hahahah hell yea tell em itzgenx!!!!!!! hey is you car runnin????

[RMiller]

hahahah hell yea tell em itzgenx!!!!!!! hey is you car runnin????

He told me alright. I've disassembled most of my head, so I have taken out cams. If you read my previous post I explain why it takes some time to do. It just takes a certain amount of time to remove so many screws and bolts and put them back in. What seems like no time at all, because you just take off some stuff, bust out the ratchet, etc. probably takes more time than you think. I'm not stupid.

[nismostate]

imo.... stfu.. obviously when he said 10 min, he was exagerating. if you work on cars, NOTHING takes 10 minutes. maybe a freaking oil change. sheesh. AND if you have aftermarket cams and think it's gonna take a long time to install, then you just need to call it quits.

[ItzGenX]

Obviously this thread kinda fell though . On a side note, I am getting the block back from the machine shop next week or so. After that, I begin assembling. I should have it together and installed within a long day or so. It all just depends on how long CP is going to take on them custom pistons that I ordered 10 weeks ago.

[need2drift]

RMILLER do you want itzgenx to time him self or somethin, damn lets start a huge argument over a 10min exageration that you could have just read and ignored but..... WHATEVER ha hahahahahahaha

[HybridOne]

yea....so i've got this cam i'm selling.......

[ItzGenX]

Hybrid, why not just keep it? If you do not want to just put one cam in, just set it aside until you get the intake cam. If you really want to sell it, then putting it on ebay will most likely have it sold for 175 shipped. You can also try putting it in the buy/sell section of many SR forums.

[RMiller]

What's going on? Hey, he said a time, I questioned it and he defended it. Sorry I missed the exaggeration, but I hear stuff like that all the time. Back to the topic, I think you should either source another cam or sell the one you have.

[tonis56]

Cam still for sale??? I tried emailing you and it didn't work. I am interested.

Tony