How far has your car gone without a cam weld?

[pitbull]

Well I got mine welded yesterday at 214,000 kilometers. (Thats 133,000 miles). When was yours welded, and what are you at now?

 

[redSHO96]

My car is currently at 151,000 miles w/out the cams welded. I am driving out to NESHO on Saturday for the cam welding.

 

[CURT SAUNDERS]

Mine was welded by NESHO at 180,000 miles & I now have over 207,000 miles & still running strong.

 

[ruWelded]

My sister has a 99 with over 120k. I talk with her frequently about getting it welded. My 96 failed at 106K.

I just got a 97 that belonged to a guy at the place I work. I warned him last summer that it needed to be welded. I gave him this web site along with v8sho.com

He wanted to sell it to me for $4k last summer. I bought it from him for $900 after it had a rear cam failure.

I try to tell every SHO owner I meet about the cam problem. Not too many of them listen.

Edit:
96 has 133k
97 failed at 95k

 

[roland]

129k miles

 

[NebraskaSHO]

Like at 70k I got it done

 

[me6894]

im at 85k right now and not welded although im not sure if it has been

 

[allan greyling]

just had mine done last month had 183000 miles when done

 

[Scotty]

I person I bought mine from had it let go at 85k, had it fixed and then drove another 60k on the replacement engine without getting the cams welded.

 

[98TRSHO]

Mine was welded feb14th 2006 at 97,572 and it now has 117,940....


LORD 20,368k in a year!!!!!

 

[Mr Anonymous]

They let go when they let go. There is no set mileage, and the stats on V8SHO even if you average the mileage doesn't give you a clear picture because those only represent a portion of total failures -- those are only the reported failures to the V8SHO site.

We've seen cars with 200K on the original motor, we've seen cars fail with 28K. There is at least one known failure of a brand new car on the dealer lot with under 50 miles on it.

I enjoy gambling as much as anyone, but losing $100 at the blackjack table is a lot easier to deal with than losing $3000+ by putting off something as critical as getting the cams welded.

 

[YAHTEC]

They let go when they let go. There is no set mileage, and the stats on V8SHO even if you average the mileage doesn't give you a clear picture because those only represent a portion of total failures -- those are only the reported failures to the V8SHO site.

We've seen cars with 200K on the original motor, we've seen cars fail with 28K. There is at least one known failure of a brand new car on the dealer lot with under 50 miles on it.

I enjoy gambling as much as anyone, but losing $100 at the blackjack table is a lot easier to deal with than losing $3000+ by putting off something as critical as getting the cams welded.

I was reading your post from that other stupid thread that is now locked (Thank you! haha) about how the sprocket still spun even after welding... Was it a poor weld or is there something that I should know before taking it somewhere? Thanks for your help!

 

[SNOOT]

Welded at 48,000 miles have almost 54,000 miles on it now. 1998

 

[dmjarosz]

Welded: 52,000. Currently 108,800. I recently pulled the valve covers off to fix an oil leak and the welds still look perfect.

 

[Silvapain]

Welded at 103K

 

[stephen newberg]

I have sort of lost track, but I think I welded it at about 85k and now am at about 170k.

pax, smn

 

[98TRSHO]

OK all this cam weld question's has me wondering what mine look like, So my question is how do I take my valve cover off to look and see what mine are like. All I really know is that there welded all the way around and not spot welded. Mr. A you think you could give me a few pointers on getting that cover off? Tim said he would help me but he doesn't really know either so if you could shoot me a Pm or something it would be a big help

 

[NebraskaSHO]

Do you want to look at just the front, or both?

Front, as difficult as it looks is pretty easy.

 

[98TRSHO]

i just wanna check and see what they look like... I guess i'll look at both depending on the amount of work involved for me to do it by myself...

 

[NebraskaSHO]

May be some helpful hints in this thread:
http://www.shoforum.com/showthread.php?t=74439