Project 6.0L Sedan

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Progress!

Now that August Summit is out of the way, full steam ahead on the Sedan. After work yesterday I dropped by home depot to pick up some 5/16 dowel rod (ill explan in a bit). Then unpacked the rest of my crap from the weekend, and got to work on the LS1 at around 8:15pm. Wanted to just poke around and get the engine ready for the cam swap. Well, turns out smallblock chevys are perhaps the easiest car ever to do a cam swap on.

First thing is first, pull the valve covers and undo the 10MM bolts holding down the valve rockers.


This what you end up with:


Then pull the crank pulley off with a pulley removal tool. One of the 3-prong free rental tools you can get at advance auto. Then comes off the timing cover and cam gear with 10mm bolts holding it all together. This is what you should be seeing at this point.


At this pont remove the 4 bolts holdin in the cam cover. Again 10mm and straight forward. Now comes the 5/16 dowel rods. When you pull out the cam, ther eis a risk of a lifter dropping. If that happens, you are pulling the heads. Instead, take the two dowel rods, and in the holes seen below, insert them and they wll prevent the lifters from dropping.



Now pull the cam out slowly. It rides on bearings, so you just have to make sure it comes out straight, wiggle wiggle wiggle. Out she comes.



New cam to old cam:



And inserting the new cam, I poured and smothered the cam with 30W oil to prevent a dry start.


Then drop in the new pushrods. Stronger pushrods, "magnum" (I got a kick out of that)



I made such good progress so quick, I decided to call it a night. All in all, it took me about an hour. Not too bad for my first time, but could have been done in 20-30 minutes or less if I knew what I was doing. Springs/LS6 oil pump/improved racing oil pan baffle/upgraded timing chain go in wednesday.