Fw: <VV> Re: reground cams

[James Dallas]

----- Original Message -----
From: James Dallas
To: Eric S. Eberhard
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Re: reground cams


I've had brand new cams go flat in street engines, race engines, and aircraft
engines.  Probably more than reground cams if I were to have kept count, It
happens.  If a Cam is properly "treated" after being reground, it will have
the same life expectancy of a new cam.  On race engines I prefer reground cams
that are ground specifically for the engine and torque/horsepower RPM range
that it will be used in.

Jim Dallas
A pair of "63's"
CORSA
MCCA
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Eric S. Eberhard
  To: Lluke2136@aol.com ; virtualvairs@corvair.org
  Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:51 PM
  Subject: Re: <VV> Re: reground cams


  I have experience with one reground cam from a reliable vendor.  It lasted
  less than 20k miles and then had several flat lobes.  At 10k miles it was
  already pretty bad with it impossible to adjust lifters to be silent.

  I replaced it with an NOS cam.  Not enough miles to be sure, but so far,
  silent.

  Query ... if you can get an NOS cam for 100 bucks, why buy a reground?  The
  labor to replace the cam is many times the price of the cam!!!!

  At 04:25 PM 6/17/2004, Lluke2136@aol.com wrote:
  >If reground cams were so bad, why does Lon sell so many?  He's the type of
  >guy that wouldn't sell defective parts for a long time.  Even some of the
  >performance vendors sell reqround cams. They stand behind their parts. I'm
  >thinking
  >if they were substandard, they wouldn't last in the limited markey of
Corvair
  >parts.
  >
  >Bob Thomas
  >68Monza140
  >67Sprint350
  >65Sprint140
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