I am finally starting to get the motor back together which really has me excited seeing as the car has been sitting since last September. So far, I have the new crank (balanced, micro-polished and knife-edged), new main and rod bearings in and the crank girdle0thingee in. I bought a set of Type-S cams and was checking the clearances with plasti-guage and I am finding that they are on the outside of the low specs; specs have them from .002-.0035 and I am running about .0015 on the low side on 7 of the 10 journals, meaning they are a bit tight (I am not talking about the lobes, I am talking about the journals on the head where the cams turn on the crank....I forget the technical name). We are using a new digital Snap-On torque wrench so I Am not worried that they are tightened too much. I guess my question is, should I worry about this much of a difference? Does anyone else have where their measurements were when they installed type-S cams (I know some of you guys ahve them...hoping you worte down some measurements!). Anyone know if the cams just running a little bigger than stock? I still have my stock cams, so I might just check to see how those were running and then check the new cams again. I didn't have any problems there originally, so that is why I am not sure what is going on.
Thanks for your help

 

I am going to put the stock cams back in with the plastiguage and see what sort of read I get there.
Throwing a bump here for any other ideas.