[Walt Fricke]

I think the 2.7 cams are a lot like the 3.0 and 3.2 cams. Porsche varied the timing from maybe 0.9 to 1.7mm on these motors, with rather little difference in performance, per Bruce Anderson (RIP).

Your new readings are only off, side to side, by 0.09. If within overlap spec, Porsche allowed 0.14 side to side difference. The non-S 2.7s had a cam spec as high as 0.9 for one of their two misbegotten years, per Wayne's fine book's collection of facts. I can't see any serious issues with what you have.

It is a coin flip, I think. I might futz with the right side to get it back down a little. Or I might just think I'd get a smidgen more low end torque out of the motor, and leave it alone. If memory serves, isn't it the right side where you can leave the tensioner in and adjust the cams using it to do the tensioning without having your tools bump into the tensioner?

I set my big nut cams by putting the motor at TDC and rotating the pinless cam (or nudging one with the pin in) until the dial indicator reads what I want, and then tightening the nut some, rechecking, and then going to full 110 lbs/ft torque if it is still what I want. In your case, I'd start with nudging, as pin slop is way more than where you are out of your target range.

Carrera tensioners?