I need to degree my cams in a 97 jdm itr motor. As I understand the peak lift of of your cams need to be at a certain degree relevant to the crank. What is that degree? for both cams. please help

 

just align the holes in the camshaft with the holes in the oil bar.

 

Try posting up in the all motor forum.

there's a bunch of guys there who should know the specs you're looking for.

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I expected more out of a long time member.... what if the OP had the deck and/or the head milled? Ever consider how that will affect timing overall?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RagingAngel &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Try posting up in the all motor forum.

there's a bunch of guys there who should know the specs you're looking for.

I expected more out of a long time member.... what if the OP had the deck and/or the head milled? Ever consider how that will affect timing overall?

</TD></TR></TABLE>^^^^^^^^^^What he said. Tons of cam gear heads in there.

 

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I expected more out of a long time member.... what if the OP had the deck and/or the head milled? Ever consider how that will affect timing overall?
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I had my head milled, block decked, and different thickness head gasket and heres what I did:
-turn the crank until the crank pulley lines up with the mark on cover and verified piston position
-line up cam gears and install timing belt
-loosen adjusting bolts on cam gears
-turn the cams to align holes in cams with holes in oil bar

It ends up that my cam gears is set at +4in, +4ex. (Its the same as 0in, 0ex on a stock unmolested motor)

Does that not work to set the cams where they are suppose to be? How will it affect timing overall?

 

that's more along the lines of what I was expecting out of a long time member...



It's better than just throwing things on as there is a method to your finding out the relative timing vs. your milling.

If the OP has a fixture to degree the cams, he still is looking for the missing information on peak lift.

 

thanks guys, my head is milled 10 thou and its going to be a month before i can get on a dyno so i just wanted to degree my cams at 0,0 as a base start point. I heard that evan a stock motor could be off a little so its always a good idea to do it anyways. I have posted it in the all motor forum twice and got nothing. please help i need the numbers.