Octobersknight's 818 Build

[octobersknight]

I almost feel like i don't want to admit this, but I might as well confess - I do, on rare occasions, idiotic things. Example:

The RTV that plugged the oil channels on the cam cover also glued in the oil seals. So to get the camshafts loose from the cover I really had to pull up on them hard. Oily gloves and a hard pull on a heavy object makes for problems. Physics . One of those suckers went flying out of my hands, bounced off the nearby WRX seats and workbench, fell onto the engine stand leg, then rolled to the floor. Not good. Engine stand has a nice dent where the shaft hit.

So I took it to my machinist buddy, who put it on the lathe and checked the runout. NO PROBLEM. Also, no visible damage on any of the cam lobes themselves. Thank God for solid camshafts and hardened steel - and also for soft(ish) steel engine stands.