How to Degree a Camshaft: Lobe Center Method 

You presented this very well. The pause in editing was as effective as I have ever seen. You are a natural teacher. When you educate and indivual you educated one person. When your education makes you a teacher then you educate us all. From a Texas brother to a brother down under, " You done good."

The best I’ve ever seen explaining cam degree

Best explained video I've found on how to degree a camshaft. Great job 👏

This was the easiest to understand in comparison to many others. Thankyou

Video was great easy to learn the steps on setting the cam up

Nice to get this simplified for the mechanic! Great value her, I subscribed!

Thanks, it was never explained to me that you had to have a different crank sprocket and i wondered how you would change the timing when the sprockets had no adjustments

Regarding reverse rotation, I always either continue in normal direction of rotation and stop .050 short or reverse past .050 and come back to it in normal direction. This compensates for any slack in cam drive

Best movie on the process! Congratulations!

Have been talking with Nic this week about a Ford 200-6 build. I mentioned to him, then and again now, this comment section needs some great questions answered. My main question was: When you rotate the crank gear to, say, R4 and reinsert it, what crank to cam alignments occurred? I still wasn't sure even after asking him over the phone, today. Nic offered a "hint" during one of our earlier phone calls. Because my cam aligned Dot-to-Dot at 94° when I needed 107°, he recommended a one tooth jump because he thought that would be... "about 12° or so." Important Side Note, before I go one, I just got schooled on the why of "The Need to be Degreed" (You can use that too, if you want. No charge) There is a need for a clearer understanding of the "mechanics of dwelling a cam," not just how to do it. Who better. A few extra words here and there, with images (have your editor insert "Side bar a, b, ... x, y, and z" and re-upload it." No need to redo the entire video.) ...it might help eliminate the need to look at the phone number and call Nic. As I've been doing. Nice fellar, by the way... I think I just worked it out in my head. I think I understand. Nic suggested, me lacking this fancy bit of kit shown in the video, to skip one tooth for about a 12° move (94+12=106 I need 107. Good enough). The direction to rotate was a 50/50 choice I had to make. I went from 94° to 113° with a one tooth "jump." That was 19° on one tooth. Then this video made sense. Cutting a keyway 2° or 4° from the original keyway is impossible. 2 or 4 degrees at the crank is very close. So to allow multiple keyways you would have to do it in a new quadrant (pie slice) of teeth - safely away from the original keyway. You can now cut a new key slightly rotating the tooth quadrant relative to it. You still align the dots, just not the same ones as before. All because I didn't have it in my hands while watching the video. Hopefully my textbook was intelligible.

Great video, but the real hero is whoever did the white board lettering. Great style and easy to read ha. Keep up the good work!

This was exceptional. Bravo 👏.

Great presentation; however make all measurements in timing chain tension clockwise so your degree wheel is on target. Tapping back and forth often can miss a degree.

This is most clear method for me , thanks for not complicating it 😀

Great video.

This was my childhood in the 80s along with Super shops

Very nice as I'm about to dive off into the ge cam degreeing abyss. Excellent explantation. Will the lifters in the kit work with a solid roller cam. Thank you. All help is greatly appreciated

Very well explained

Nic, Please explain the difference in cam timing methods as compared between yours where you use only the intake centerline and the 1987 video demonstrated by George Dreegal(sp) where he also degrees from the #1 exhaust lifter. In George's example he also had a 2* difference intially. Then when he combined the results from both intake & exhaust, only 1* was found.

great i understand finally

thank you

nicely done

Wow I'm hooked.

Great video! 2 degrees isn't much. Would have liked to see you check exhaust too. I always check both intake and exhaust. Sometimes intake is off one way and exhaust is off the other way so you split the difference.

slow and patient

I have a lq9 turbo 9:5:1 with Mast heads, a BTR stg 2 cam ICL on the card wants it installed 109 That is Dot to dot, Going off the degree wheel. I ran it like that for a while but it felt a little lazy out of boost and cranking compression was a little low. So last month I pulled it apart and advanced it 5 degrees and that brought up the cranking compression 20 psi. it feels better and definitely making more power. Even the exhaust note sounds different. I think most will say that cam is not good for my combination. It should be installed on what the cam card recommends.

Did u have the degree wheel at 0 before rotating the crank to check for the intake centerline

Hello; how do you put the IN lobe at it maximum lift exactly? Is the EX pushrod all the way to the other side? I see that many use the base circle to zeroing the clock... Thanks

Good video, 1st one I saw where it explained what to do when the cam degrees didn't match the card #s when 1st installed. One question, why did you start at 2 degrees R with the crank gear?,,,thanks

How does changing the sprocket location change the timing if the cam stays in the same position and the crank stays in the same position. The only thing that seems do change is the sprocket location.

Great video ! l have a 2015 Ford Fusion 2.0 Turbo * (gasoline) do you have any hi perf. cams for sale ? The onl help l could get in this respect was Crowler would " re-grind" an original set of cams. Can you, or anyone seeing this recommend something for this engine ? Thanks K.😜

what would you do if you didn't have a cam card?

ive a 496 chevy with 305 afr heads 10:25 cr. ive the smallest voodoo solid roller cam but want to go to hr with short travel lifters can you make a grind with 629 lift and about 240 @050 ground on 108 lsa? also too.where would you degree that cam for optimum?

How about the exhaust side?

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You make cams and lifters. You should address all the exploding lifter drama.

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Is it really necessary to degree LS cams? Considering we don’t use adjustable cams like a lot of imports do (I could be wrong but I’ve never seen it), why would we have to degree the cam? Seems to me like it should only bolt up one way and it can’t be off because you can’t adjust it. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Nice video but if the lobe center angle is fixed by the cam profile how does adjusting the crank gear position change it from 105 to 107 degrees?

Is it possible to have a higher intake lobe centerline number than the exhaust lobe centerline? Thanks

How did moving the sprocket change the timing ?? Or did the slots move the the crank a degree or two from where it was previously?

cool video, but why it makes a difference when you only pull the crank sprocket of the crank and put it back in another keyway, when the crank or cam isnt moved ?

sir, what about if we dont have a cam card,,what method do we used to achive for max power out put for the cam,thank you.

What brand timing chain is that? And what if you don't have one with multi alignment keys?

When you install the timing chain did you line it up dot to dot??

Cam degree for dummies.. perfect video for me 😂

Nice Nick! Rock it Kool!

If you have a camshaft that the numbers have been ground down because of secretive engine tuners. How do you find your valve lift and duration? Valve lift should be easy enough but the duration... I'm not sure

Why wouldn't you show how to install the degree wheel and dial indicator??

All timing chains have slack in them, how can you reverse the degree wheel without first taking up the slack from moving clock wise. I must be missing something.

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Good info! Not very good camera option! Need to find zoom on camera to see what is going on with timing gears and timing wheel

how different is the process if doing it with cylinder heads installed?

Does every cam come with a card?

Why don’t you just read the dial indicator to read the piston dwell at the top and decide it in half for finding TDC?

Why not reverse center lines to get better performance

Doesn't this imply that the cam was not ground properly? I mean if you have to buy an adjustable sprocket to make up for the difference that seems like something you shouldn't have to do?

7:30 and 11:40 🤔You're rotating against running rotation which changes the slack of the timing chain which will give you an inaccurate reading. 🤔 ALL cam readings must be taken with clock wise (at the degree wheel) engine rotation. 🙄

That degree wheel way too small for any amount of accuracy.

Ok you some what make look easier. But you not taking the fact that heads are different. !!! An head gaskets will also change time too....

This makes no sense because I e watched simple videos of easy aftermarket raving cam shaft being installed and not once was this stupid degreeing was done and truck still has insane power.. sooo yeah, you don't' "have" to do that. Someone explain

Kill the back round music.🙉

7:13. Did you already set the indicator to 0 off screen or did you luck out being right on the zero? "Once we get it to this point you bring the lifter to full lift." It wasn't already at full lift???? Were you just talking about the indicator set up? Then you spun it to full lift again instead of showing it the first time??

Not clear information

Yea kinda weird he turned the sproket and not the cam 😮

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