Started the Cam, heads, and more swap!

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Yay, it's in!

[levisjohnson]

So when re you going to get to fire it up?  It looks great.  My wife wants me to paint my 6.2 similar to yours.  I really cant argue with that.

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the goal is tonight, I have to get some little things now to finish, like longer air cleaner stud, the kickdown stud for the throttle linkage, some hose, etc. and it will be ready to go, still gotta wire in the relay setup for the fans.

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It is in, it is done, and WOW!  Post pics soon!

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Here's an ok video of it idling, i'll make another with it out of the garage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBVF3uugtg

[eventhorizon66]

Hard to hear with the quality of the audio, but you can definitely tell it's choppy.  Glad to see you have it in and running.  Have you taken it out for a rip yet?

[VileZambonie]

Lookin Good! Good job man. Isn't it fun? lol Everyone thinks I'm a freak for having all of my trucks and projects rolling at the same time.

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I've drove it but babied it for right now, definitely a difference in the sound, everything in the truck rumbles now, esp the back window.  I gotta get the choke tweaked a little better on the carb and do some timing tweaking, it diesels on me a little.  I'm gonna make a video and show off what I did to the motor, I had to buy new valve covers, the ones in the pictures were a crappy casting, and the rocker arms sat there and hit them.  Truck sounds like it dropped a set now haha, The idle is soo awesome to hear, it gets to 60 with little effort now and doesnt run out of steam at 3500 like it did before!

[fitz]

I had to buy new valve covers, the ones in the pictures were a crappy casting, and the rocker arms sat there and hit them. 

The new motor is looking great. Good move going with the new valve covers. I have a set of vortecs that have GM aluminum valve covers for an 87-91 vette on them. The covers had to be ground down with a die grinder due to clearance issues with the rocker arms.

[CruzinHigh]

Great job bro!  Sweet looking motor and must feel good to know you did it all yourself.

[78 Chevyrado]

Looking NICE!  If it goes like it shows, you're all set!

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I gotta get it in time, gotta recheck the timing gears...It runs like crap, it's all cam right now.  It has a sputter at about 1100-1300rpm when accelerating, then it does okay.  It doesnt really pull hard til 4500rpm.  I think the truck is geared higher than I expected, if I put the brake in and floor it, the engine revs to 3100rpm but wont even spin the tires.  The guy that did the valve set, seems like he did it too tight, and may have ruined my camshaft, but hopefully caught it before that.  but if my cam is bad I'm goin with a summit 1103, It has the bark, but no bite til 4500rpm, if it was geared shorter, it'd be a hoss, but the old setup would blow my doors off til the current setup got into its rpm......

[SUX2BU99]

Sorry to hear that dude. Must be disappointing to do all that work on the build only to have it not run like you were hoping.    Hopefully it'll shake itself out there.  Wow, yours doesn't make power UNTIL 4500? Crazy. What do you shift at? Mine starts to drop off AT 4500  lol  I looked up your cam though and it kinda doesn't surprise why you have the super soft bottom end:

Crane Energizer Cam & Lifters 3200-6200 RPM #100182 286/286 adv duration .462/.465 lift Valve Springs must be change, 2500+ stall, Not Computer Compatible

That's a fairly hairy cam you have for a rather heavy truck. What rear gears do you have? Lots of duration there for a somewhat modest valve lift. What's the LSA on it?

[eventhorizon66]

Why do you think the valves are too tight?  Do you mean you suspect they were tightened to the point of making the lifters solid?  Did you install the cam straight up?  If so, try advancing it 4°.  That is a fairly aggressive cam for the street, so it is definitely possible you over did it.

You don't know what gears you have?

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Sorry to hear that dude. Must be disappointing to do all that work on the build only to have it not run like you were hoping.    Hopefully it'll shake itself out there.  Wow, yours doesn't make power UNTIL 4500? Crazy. What do you shift at? Mine starts to drop off AT 4500  lol  I looked up your cam though and it kinda doesn't surprise why you have the super soft bottom end:

Crane Energizer Cam & Lifters 3200-6200 RPM #100182 286/286 adv duration .462/.465 lift Valve Springs must be change, 2500+ stall, Not Computer Compatible

That's a fairly hairy cam you have for a rather heavy truck. What rear gears do you have? Lots of duration there for a somewhat modest valve lift. What's the LSA on it?

If you manually shift it, after 4500 it slings you back in the seat.  I am not 100% on my gear ratio, I just used a calculator online going 55 at 2200rpm in drive with a 30.7in tire on the back, it measured at about 3.67, so we ASSUMED 3.73 being a factory 6 cyl runnin gear too.  But of course, speedo could be off, etc.

Why do you think the valves are too tight?  Do you mean you suspect they were tightened to the point of making the lifters solid?  Did you install the cam straight up?  If so, try advancing it 4°.  That is a fairly aggressive cam for the street, so it is definitely possible you over did it.

You don't know what gears you have?

We suspected the valves were too tight almost to the point of being solid, one cyl we backed it off about 13 complete revolutions before it started to rattle, then we turned it a half turn and it quietened again., they need to be gone through again sadly.  We've backfired through the carb like 5 or 6 times already, ugh...  One of my friends thinks I got a dud carburetor, being an idiot, I think I did overcarb it being a 1411 750cfm on it.  I did run a 750 edelbrock on a malibu with a crappier motor, and it ran fantastic!  of course it was in time good.  i wanna go through the valves without it running, I'm tired of oil slinging all over everything under the hood.

We got the cam degreed straight up, I'm worried it may be off a tooth or 2, its one of those double rollers with the option for -4, 0, and +4 settings.

It's really embarrassing not being able to do a burnout!  ughhhh, i'd go back to stock idle sound if it would roast that dog leg rear end like it used to be able to do!