1qkfwd
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Seems like everytime I bring up the subject it starts cluttering other threads.
I know the swap has been done successfully, they just don't want to share how they did it. Why do the swap? Well the cams are bigger than any factory grind cam for the 1g or 2g. They are also lighter since they are hollow. Finally they can be had pretty cheap. I got mine free from a buddy with the gears.
I haven't finished the swap yet since I still need to get me a set of cam gears. But I have looked at the cams and did some comparisons to the 1g cams. The evo cams bolt into the 1g/2g head. Part of the swap will require the intake cam to be installed where our exhaust cam is and vise versa. That leaves the notch where it needs to be for our cam angle sensor. The downside to this is the notch is not in the right spot with the cam set up at tdc. This is the part I haven't sat down and figured out yet, but I see three ways of doin this. We can possibly change the firing order, second reconfigure the trigger disc in the cam angle sensor, lastly get the kiggly crank trigger setup. With the last one being costly for a budget I'm gonna try to leave that out. As for the timing belt side, the first look is that with the cams swapped around the dowels are 45* off from the dsm cams. Ours sit vertical as the evo cams sit horizontal. I'll get pics as time goes by. I'm in the process of getting 1868 back on the road. Once that's done I'm gonna toy around with cams and see if I can get everything done on the evo cam swap. As for now it's up for disscusion.
I know the swap has been done successfully, they just don't want to share how they did it. Why do the swap? Well the cams are bigger than any factory grind cam for the 1g or 2g. They are also lighter since they are hollow. Finally they can be had pretty cheap. I got mine free from a buddy with the gears.
I haven't finished the swap yet since I still need to get me a set of cam gears. But I have looked at the cams and did some comparisons to the 1g cams. The evo cams bolt into the 1g/2g head. Part of the swap will require the intake cam to be installed where our exhaust cam is and vise versa. That leaves the notch where it needs to be for our cam angle sensor. The downside to this is the notch is not in the right spot with the cam set up at tdc. This is the part I haven't sat down and figured out yet, but I see three ways of doin this. We can possibly change the firing order, second reconfigure the trigger disc in the cam angle sensor, lastly get the kiggly crank trigger setup. With the last one being costly for a budget I'm gonna try to leave that out. As for the timing belt side, the first look is that with the cams swapped around the dowels are 45* off from the dsm cams. Ours sit vertical as the evo cams sit horizontal. I'll get pics as time goes by. I'm in the process of getting 1868 back on the road. Once that's done I'm gonna toy around with cams and see if I can get everything done on the evo cam swap. As for now it's up for disscusion.