Got a little motivated and decided to adjust all the valves that I could minus the 3 rocker arms I am replacing that should arrive on Tuesday. I use the quarter crank turn method to adjust valves and decided to put the degree wheel to work for accuracy. Bolted a clothes hanger wire at the water pump boss, installed the degree wheel, and set up the clothes hanger pointer to point to zero. With #1 at TDC I adjusted the intake and exhaust valves with spec'd lash, turned the crank 90*, and then moved on to #8 and so on. The cam I am using has an LS firing order. It has 108 lobe seperation and intake center line is at 104. That means that if I was to line up the dots of the crank and cam gears(setting the cam straight up) I would already be 4* advanced. Advance will give you a little more torque on the bottom end and retarded will shift power to the top end. The beauty of this belt drive set up is that I can adjust up to 4* either way on the fly. Just need to loosen the four bolts on the cam cover and rotate left or right. Degreeing in the cam is best done on a dyno and dialed in for your desired rpm range. I am going to set it up 2* advanced for now per engine builders specs. Once all rockers are installed I'll recheck valve train geometry. Then it will be off to the dyno.
