xebruce 50 Posted September 26, 2013 Putting the top end of my 302 clevo back together. New DEH265 cam, timing gear, lifters. Heads have been redone. When fitting the cam does it need to be advanced or can I just top dead centre it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slydog 7,873 Posted September 26, 2013 It needs to be set up "correctly" not advanced or retarded...Get your lift @ Top Dead Centre off your cam card and set it to that value or the intake center line.It needs to be checked via dial gauge and degree wheel,dot to dot tells you nothing about where the cam is cos it doesn't know how the cam is ground. If going by advance or retard my cam is ground 2 degrees advanced but I set it up 8 degree's retarded to get the correct lift @ TDC and center line,104 from memory??? Could be 106. Just dot to dot is a guessing game and on a cam with decent lift I would check piston to valve clearance aswell. 3 revhead, Crazy2287 and Thom reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
