| TheRookie |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:27 pm |
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Hi Guys
I watched a video with a guy dialing in his cam on his new CB Performance engine,How ever he has an adjustable cam gear
It seems a long process and I can see it's worth the effort
My question is what's the point in dialing in a cam if you have a fixed cam gear .You can't advance or retard the cam. Once the cam is bolted to the gear it's fixed, All you can really do is install.
Am I missing something here or not ??? |
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| Alstrup |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:34 pm |
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| You are correct. One reason to why we just about never use those ;-) |
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| Wreck |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:37 pm |
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| to make sure the cam is ground correctly is the main one , I do it on all four lobes after getting a Scat cam that had one lobe a lot bigger than the other 3 , (10 degrees at 0.050") |
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| Alstrup |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:44 pm |
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| 1 more reason to stay away from Scat cams. They are terrible, and have been for at least a decade |
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| Rob Combs |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:04 pm |
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Wreck wrote: to make sure the cam is ground correctly is the main one , I do it on all four lobes after getting a Scat cam that had one lobe a lot bigger than the other 3 , (10 degrees at 0.050")
Yikes!!! |
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| Rob Combs |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:06 pm |
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TheRookie wrote: Hi Guys
I watched a video with a guy dialing in his cam on his new CB Performance engine,How ever he has an adjustable cam gear
It seems a long process and I can see it's worth the effort
My question is what's the point in dialing in a cam if you have a fixed cam gear .You can't advance or retard the cam. Once the cam is bolted to the gear it's fixed, All you can really do is install.
Am I missing something here or not ???
One of my CB cams measured out to need 2* advance and the other was dead nuts, with the same gear. To get them aligned with the cam cards, anyway.
Gotta get the adjustable gear… |
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| modok |
Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:12 pm |
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The point of checking the cam timing, is to check your cam timing.
There are no warning lights in the space shuttle for things the astronauts can't control, its true,
but we aren't in space are we?
If it is too far off there are many ways to do something different. |
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