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Happy Ending to a Sad Story! Building a 400 Pontiac – How to install a flat tappet camshaft!

Joe Fernandes brought me a 455 Pontiac back in October that had a broken piston and block. He found this 400 Pontiac on Marketplace, watch as we build it into beautiful street engine for his 1968 Firebird. How to install a hydraulic flat tappet camshaft How to check crankshaft clearance How to use plastigauge to […]

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Budget Pontiac 400 Build – Flat Tappet Camshaft Install

Installing a budget flat tappet camshaft can be a cheap way to get big power in a Pontiac 400 rebuild. Whether its a 1967 Pontiac GTO or a 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, Pontiac 326 or the pinnacle of automotive history, Pontiac 455 the procedure is the same. We wanted to review this first on the […]

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