1988 Sunbird Turbo Camshaft
I am usually pretty good at finding replacement parts for people but on this one I have struck out, the owner found the camshaft with 2 worn lobes when repairing a leaky valve cover.
I have been able to find the non turbo K code camshaft, but nothing for the Turbo M code engine. This is for the SOHC 2.0 engine Any help greatly appreciated. |
Keeeep searching. I had an '89 Turbo Grand Am. Parts for those turbo 4 bangers are hens teeth. Run pretty damn strong, when they run. Are you sure its only a valve cover leak? They are known for eating head gaskets, turbo seals and cracking heads. I put $1500.00 into mine doing my own work and that was quite a few years ago.
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havevyou looked on car-part.com (at least that's what I recall the url as being)...
you can find some great stuff there. There has to be a handful of the turbo Sunbirds and Grand Am's in Pac-NW wreckers... |
Thanks for the idea's, he want's a new one, but he may have to settle for a good used one if he want's it back together in a reasonable amount of time.
As for the leak it does have alittle to much blow by, but I found the valve cover damaged were it was leaking (Cracked ) so that should cure most of the leak, it has 160,000 miles on it so I really don't expect it run like new. |
I'm never in here but I noticed the posting in the forum summary.
While the turbo engine was US-only, perhaps some Europe or Brazil distributor might have something? The LT3 or C20GET engines were built in Brazil, so perhaps that can help. Otherwise - yes, car-part.com for a used cam. |
Thanks for the Ideas. I will look into it. So far no luck.
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Thanks for all the leads, non of them directly panned out, but thru a lead from a lead from a lead, we were able to find a NOS Cam and Followers that we needed. It runs great now that all the valves open like they should.
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great!!!
thanks for lettin subscribers to this thread know! |
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