Look at the front of the leftside cam. Find the timing gear keyway. Now looking at the cam front to back visually line the keyway up with the first lobe on the cam. Now look at the nose of that cam lobe (which is the highest lift). The keyway should be at 11:00 in relation to that lobe. This is the leftside cam. Do the same check for the rightside cam and the keyway to lobe nose location is at 8:00.

 

thats what I did ant the lodes are in the wrong spot. thanks very much DYNOTECH

 

fyi. This is not in relation to top dead center and i am talking about the cam keyway not the crank. This how you identify the left cam and right cam as the cam keyway is constant obviously in relation to each cam lobe. I hope I am making sense here and not confusing you more about this. If this is what you did then the cams are in the wrong cyl heads or visa versa.

 

no you didnt confuse me. that is what they did as soon as I read this I went and looked and it was as I thought all along he put the cams on the wrong heads,and that explains why he had one cam on backwards. He must not have noticed that the heads look same front to back. the other way I caught that was that on the back side of the head nothing had the milled clean look and the gasket mounting surface had the dull cast alum. look. thanks again,the guy must have been having a bad day. he has built many race motors and done a lot of machine work on motors so I wont take anything from his ability. We all have bad days

 

that would have been nice if you put it together and tried to start it....

 

Mann, No kidden. That wouduh sucked!

Bad day would have evolved into someones Nightmare.

Glad it went the way it did. I think most would have turned the key