kent cam in vtr head

24th October 2009, 17:40

Wondering if you could help

I have a kent cam (PT11) out of a 1.4xsi head

Wondering if I can fit that to my black top vtr engine

Kent cam website lists the same part number for both engines

Loads of people say its to do with roller rockers or something so im confused 50% people say yes and 50% says no from old threads

cheers

24th October 2009, 17:46

I think the people who say they will not fit are getting grey top heads confused with black top.

24th October 2009, 18:07

i thought the xsi head ran the bigger bearing like the rallye head (as its the same head just with a different cam)

so wouldnt fit in the vtr

however im not an 8v person tbh

24th October 2009, 18:32

You are correct Alex it defiantly does run big bearing in the XSI. Though I believe the black top VTR are big bearing as well are they not? I never really knew where half my engines came from but don't recall the VTR being any different. I know Gabbastards and Charlie also tell me there big as well as they have both worked on both. Kent list there part numbers as the same so I would suspect there the same.

Though on the flip side CatCams list the TU3/5 as small bearing. But then they also list the 106 1.3 Rallye as small bearing and I have seen enough of these to be 110% positive all the ones I have ever seen were large. I recall a few complaints about people from Europe who had got a cam for the Rallye to be sent by mistake on SSC as well so don't think its just a UK thing.

24th October 2009, 19:31

cheers for the reply so I think it might well fit then

Do you really need to remove the head to remove the cam
I have all the time in the world cant I jack the engine up high enough out of the car to side the cam out

Or does the cam bearing bits get stuck on the arms

cheers

24th October 2009, 19:38

The rocker assembly is held in with the head bolts so you have to take the head bolts out to remove the cam.

24th October 2009, 20:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by AXracing

The rocker assembly is held in with the head bolts so you have to take the head bolts out to remove the cam.

So there is no way of getting the cam lobes/bearing past the rocker assembly then

cheers

1st November 2009, 12:19

i cant see why you couldnt drop the engine down at an angle (leaving it on the ecu side engine mount) so that the cam would pass out on the ecu side at 45degrees

surely you could twist it past the rocker arm assembly?

ive never worked on shitty 8vs before (awaits the mass of insults

) so have never tried this

can anyone shed any light?

allthough imo would be worthwhile changing headgasket and rebuilding head at the same time, gives you an excuse to do so