ramrod1
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Anybody have a source for a cheap camshaft for a 87 samurai? Not looking for a performance upgrade just stock.
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where do you think samypro gets their camshafts :fawkdancesmiley:
Delta :fawkdancesmiley:
Avanteone
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Delta Cams FTW! :awesomework:
Qman
The Camshaft Guy
What's wrong with your camshaft? I can regrind yours in a performance(torque) grind for a lot less than NAPA can sell you a stocker. But if you got money to toss around the choice is yours.
frankybeans
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Not ever gonna come close to using a turd, reground cam. This is like installing overload springs to compensate for a flat tire. Might as well run retreaded tires too.
Stop by the junk yard if you need to be cheap. Just don't go the cheese ball route.
A reground cam isn't even good enough to stir a bucket of ****, in my opinion.
Stop by the junk yard if you need to be cheap. Just don't go the cheese ball route.
A reground cam isn't even good enough to stir a bucket of ****, in my opinion.
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Qman
The Camshaft Guy
Are you serious?????
Ask around this forum. Those "turds", as you call them, are all over this forum and many others. Our regrounds carry a better warranty than new. We stand behind every cam we do. You will never find this quality with a new camshaft. We can not expect everyone to understand cost savings and prudance.
BTW, please explain why you feel a reground is so bad. If you had a bad experience with one I can understand that. But cam failures are usually the result of improper installation, break-in, poor lubrication or incorrect spring pressures.
zukkev
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I've got a stock one, comes with a head for $50....PM if interested:awesomework:
Qman
The Camshaft Guy
A great deal!
frankybeans
Well-Known Member
" You will never find this quality with a new camshaft. "
:haha:
Oh man, I don't think I've ever smelled a more pungent line of bullshit.
Qman
The Camshaft Guy
Answer my question maybe?
The reason I/we say that is we 100% inspect every lobe we grind. Every new camshaft is held to ISO9000 standards. Which is sample inspection. Which means that the inspector touches 10 out of 100 cams. Then he only inspects a lobe or two per cam. I can see how that would be better.
While your comebacks are amusing your intellegence wavers!
ramrod1
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Thanks for the help!:awesomework:
Qman
The Camshaft Guy
You bet. PM replied to.
zukkev
Cornfuzzled yet again...
Thank you! I've had this head for awhile stored away in a plastic tote---and have no intention of using it in the near future, so if someone needed it...Actually, come to think of it, I have another head that is still bolted to a lower end which one of the rods decided it was time to leave!!!:redneck: So, I have two heads with stock cams!!:awesomework:
frankybeans
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You're on here telling people your reground cams are better than NEW billet cams produced by Lunati, Crower and Comp. While you're peddaling welded globs on used cams from castings ?
It's simply ludacris and then you're attempting to crack on someones intellegence ?:looser:
Qman
The Camshaft Guy
I am not cracking on anyones intellegence. You are doing a fine job all by yourself. You assume that we weld all regrounds, We do not. If a Chev, Ford, Chrysler or Toyota has a bad lobe 99% of them get tossed into the scrap bin. The companies you cite as cam builders only "build" about 5% of their own stuff. There are two "billet" manufacturers in the United States. We buy our new cams from them as well.
If we didn't feel that our product was superior, why on earth would we warranty them for 2X's longer than the companies you refer to? Because the quality is better controlled. We hold to .001"- <.002" run-out per lobe. The industry standard is .003". We inspect every lobe. They use ISO standards for inspection. I have an original 5.8 Hemi cam in the shop right now that has a stepped lobe because of this very inspection process. Pulled from a 50K mile motor. Never ran quite right and no one could figure it out until they pulled the cam for a performance upgrade.
I can drop the names of every machine shop, after-market retailer, engine builder, US governmant agency( who do you think provides the cams for your Hummers?), NHRA race team, Bonneville record holders, First diesel truck in the 9's runs one of our regrinds, Monster truck team, individuals and every brand name car or truck we sell cams for every day, week and year. But, we do not need to.
You have still managed to "NOT" answer my original question.
Qman said:
You have only cited rediculous reasons and no facts to back up your rants. Feel free to tell this community and myself the reason. And, if you knew as much about our company as you insinuate you would also know we sell new cams ground to your custom specifications. One day service and better customer service is why we have been in business since 1978. Call Comp, Lunati or Crower and ask them how long to geta custom ground shaft from them. Or, are you satisfied with taking their off the shelf cam instead?
I know sponsored guys who have called the big guys asking for a replacement cam that is a special grind and they were told 6 weeks to get it, a sponsored driver! We had him send it overnight from Branson Missouri, Repaired his damaged Comp cam, shipped it back to him overnight and he made the event the following weekend. He won that event. He had replaced the Comp vinyl with ours! Just one story.
It is what it is. Not everything works for everyone. To each is own. You do not have to like us. You do not have to buy from us. But, unless you've had a bad experience with us or with a reground and are willing to discuss it please do not bad mouth us. We area good company to deal with. Ask around this forum or any place else for that matter. You will find that almost everyone has heard of us or knows someone who has used one of our cams. We offer a good product for a better price.
Ken
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64FJ40
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He probably had a bad experience with a reground cam on a build that he did*.
*When I say "did", I mean deliberately and completely plagiarized from another forum elsewhere.
as many builds as ive ever done, the ONLY cam failures ive had were " name brand" one edelbrock cam cracked in a spiral mid shaft, had a huge bubble in it, there were 3 back to back ford motorsports cams that wernt even strait one was over .030" run out!
think of it this way, a reground cam is " seasoned" and generaly you know will have no materials issues. if it did , it would have allready failed.
the only issue i EVER had with a reground was it didnt get ground to my specs, aperently there wasnt enough meet left in the lobes to get the profile and lca i wanted, so they fudged the specs on me with out telling. i cought it when i degreed it in, no prob since then.
think of it this way, a reground cam is " seasoned" and generaly you know will have no materials issues. if it did , it would have allready failed.
the only issue i EVER had with a reground was it didnt get ground to my specs, aperently there wasnt enough meet left in the lobes to get the profile and lca i wanted, so they fudged the specs on me with out telling. i cought it when i degreed it in, no prob since then.
