I pulled the rockers, timing cover, etc and was getting my dowels ready to keep the lifters from falling when I noticed the cam in the engine has one big bolt in the middle instead of 3 smaller bolts like the new cam has. My immediate thought was they sent me the wrong cam so I checked my emails to be sure I stated I had an LY2, then called Vinci HP and sent an email stating my engine was torn apart and I needed to get this figured out ASAP and if they needed to grind a new cam, I needed them to get on it. Then I saw a notice on their website stating all their cams are 3-bolt and I would need a 3-bolt cam gear. Doh. So off Googling I went and found a conversion kit from BTR on Summit’s site that said it would work. Ordered, next day air, for $70. Then I noticed an email back from Roger Vinci himself, with an exact explanation and a GM part# and stating I needed a 4 pole reluctor gear, make sure to get this exact part...then my phone rang and it was Roger who was talking so fast I didn’t want to interrupt him. He even apologized for taking so long to call me back...he was in the “cam lab” doing some testing on a new cam. Keep in mind the total time from my email and phone call to this point was 30 minutes. After he got done explaining about the reluctor and why I needed the gear from an 05-06 Corvette LS2 motor, I explained I found the info on his website and asked if the BTR product would work since it has the 4-pole 58-x reluctor and he said yep. Then he surprised me even more and said I now have his personal cell phone number, add him to my contacts but don’t give it to anybody, and I can call him directly if I need to get ahold of him in the future. Now that’s pretty cool. I have the cell phone number of the chief engineer and majority owner of Vinci High Performance. That dude is cool.
