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My head build is finished, short of putting on the intake manifold and doing a final torquing of the manifold fasteners....some please convince me with dyno data why I should cut grooves in my ported...

Buy a 14 inch electric fan off ebay. I bought a Derale knockoffs for about a 1/3 the price retail.

Awesome post....Great to see all the pictures.

What did the rebuild end up costing? Bearings, Pistons, Machine Shop, misc...?

I thought of another quirk of the 85 Turbo engine:

If converted to a TII, you absolutely need a custom calibrated logic module. The GLHS, Stage II logic module will not work 'well' as the G-head...

I found the problem today...

Front bracket was held on by only one bolt, the other two bolts were missing. The bracket was cracked and missing a piece near the third bolt hole (axial). I repaced...

I'm almost done with my port and polish job on my 287 head project. Thus far I've assembled the following...

-1985 287 Casting Head, mildlyyyyyyyyy ported and polished, intake and exhust ports...

88 TBI cam needs no cam timing advance, correct?....G-head, 88TBI Cam, Square tooth sprocket. After 88, you need 4 degree advance when using a roller cam on a square tooth sprocket? This needs to...

When I R&R the front mount, do I need to remove the entire front bracket? I believe, there are four bolts/stud on the forward part of the bracket, and two or three bolts connecting the tranny to the...

I own a Polybushings dogbone mount but the vibration was excessive...all my fillings fell out. The mount peformed beautifully and there was no engine movement during acceleration.

The front...

I replaced the dogbone tranny mount in my TII omni this weekend, a week after installing it. It failed bad, a NAPA replacement part made of cast aluminum, the top lobe cracked off and was missing. ...

I'm planning on installing 89 Kelsey-Haynes 60mm calipers on my 85 GLHT. The plan includes reusing the existing rotors and upgrading to a 24mm master cylinder.

I'm not planning on changing the...

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Thanks for the help.

So an 88 cam is best option from an 85 slider? In that, the 88 cam does not require an advance in cam timing. I'm currently running an 90 turbo I roller cam on a G-head,...

A couple of cam questions...not to the typical ones, though...

87 and earlier cars got slider cams with square tooth sprockets?

88 cars got roller cams with square tooth sprockets?

89 and...

3M Super 90 is a bit better and stocked at your local Home Depot.

If I swap in a 555, I can just reuse my 6 bolt flywheel?

What's unique and what are the upgrade limitations?

From what I've found:

1. 287 G head...good and bad. Good for porting and flow, bad for limited pool of parts.
2. Dished G head...

Thanks, that's what I've been doing. In fact I use tie-wraps to secure the timing belt to crank and intermediate shaft while I play with the cam timing. What advance are you running and what kind...

No the degree is stamp on each keyway...what it doesnt have is the parting line holes at 3 and 9 oclock for absolute proper alighnment.

Other than Fidanza, who else sells an adjustable cam...

I thought it was one or the other...5 keyway sprocket or adjustable keys. Maybe this is why I have 150PSI compression but only 12 inHg vacuum.

Anyone know how to correctly install one of these for something other than 0 degrees?

They have don't have the 3 and 9 o'clock slots to align the cam cap parting lines. What I do is put the cam...