MC head self-machining, cam+cap

[Huw Powell]

> As the head is sitting on the counter, I noticed that the cam lobe in
> front of the second bearing cap is basically in contact with the side
> of the cap.  The lobe actually has scraped off metal from the cap
> where it interefered!
>
> It's as if the lobe is too far back, or perhaps the whole cam is too
> far to the rear.

Or perhaps the cam bearing cap thing got put on backwards?  Is the cam
lobe centered over the valve lifter like the others?

Not sure I'd want to put a "mystery set up" like that on a high
performance engine unless I knew *exactly* what had been done (and why?).

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Huw Powell

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