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Old 01-03-2002, 07:37 PM
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ZZ9 Cam... 123k miles.. ??

Were looking into putting a few mods on the GTA. Bolt ons, headers, exhaust. Possibly that LT1 intake deal, but maybe just sticking w/ runners and a bigger tb.

Anway. Would it be bad to put a ZZ9 in a stock bottom end w/ 123k miles? The car's been treated extremly well from what we can tell.

The car needs to be reliable, and from what Ive heard a ZZ9 will not loap hard. But it will give good performance wise and keep reliability/mpg pretty well.

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I don't know the specs on the cam, but I'd say it's alright to do. I've seen many people do the same successfully. Myself for one.
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the zz-9 is just a little smaller than the hotcam. If you are wanting to mod out the engine perform a compression check to make shure that all the cylinders are ok. Only then would I mod the engine. Your first step should always be to run a compression check to see if the engine is even worth putting money into. It is cheep insurance that you arn't kicking a dead horse.
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Originally posted by poncho9789
the zz-9 is just a little smaller than the hotcam. If you are wanting to mod out the engine perform a compression check to make shure that all the cylinders are ok. Only then would I mod the engine. Your first step should always be to run a compression check to see if the engine is even worth putting money into. It is cheep insurance that you arn't kicking a dead horse.
Not gonna do more than boltons and/or intake and cam

Probably do a compression check to make sure like you said.

Thanks for the input. Anyone else feel free to reply too

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