| FWIW, I rememeber reading a post of Timz where he stated that he found a variance as much as 10 degrees from one side to the other with respect to cam timing. Because we have a V-engine and two sets of cams. One wants to make sure that both banks are timed the same with respect to the cam. Shaving the heads, block, varying thickness of the head gaskets and also slop in the cam gear index will change cam timing. Remember, one degree slop in the cam installation is two degrees on the crank. So if you are off by 3 degrees on the cam, that is 6 degrees on the crank. I plan on finding TDC for both banks and then degreeing the cams for the advertised cam centerline to make sure both sides are in sync with each other. That way you have the engine balanced. Otherwise you will have one bank more advanced than the other. This can be done with either solid or hydraulic cams.
Of course you will need adjustable cam gears to do this.
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