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Monday, a guy brought me a cam card....
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:19 am
by blykins
I had a guy bring a cam card to me from Erson. He wanted to know if it was a hydraulic or solid cam and what the rpm range would be.
I looked at it, saw the .000/.000 on valve lash, checked the durations and told him it was a hydraulic cam and that it would peak at around 4500-5000 on his 350 SBC.
He took the cam card back, looked at the lift (around .450") and said...
"Now with .450" lift, is that a 3/4 race cam?"
I didn't know where to start, so I just told him no.
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:36 pm
by db engines
I'm glad i'm not the only one who gets the "special" customers,I think i've had at least one a day for the last two weeks.
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:55 pm
by Shopboss
Ask them why they only want to run three fourths of a race and not the whole race. See what kind of a look they give you.
Use to when customers would ask me to number their rods I would sometimes ask them if they wanted me to put a line under #9 so they wouldn't get it mixid up with #6.
Know what? Almost all would answer ...Yes.
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:48 am
by blykins
ROFL
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:33 am
by Y BE AVG
Ya..... It only gets worse from there, and all you can do is smile and shake your head
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:48 pm
by jmarkaudio
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:06 pm
by CamKing
When someone asks me if I can make them a 3/4 race cam, I say
"Sure. Do you want me to cut the front 25% off, or the back 25%?"
cam
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:59 pm
by k-star
I remember being a 16 year old kid at the Vo-tech school and all of us motor heads talking about the day when we could afford to get a 3/4 cam for our cars. Then one Monday morning one of the guys announced to the group that his brother just installed a 4 degrees over full cam in his 327. Man we were all heart broken knowing that we could never obtain that level of camshaftdom in our engines.
Keith
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:25 pm
by machine shop tom
Back when I had just started work at a gas station and knew NOTHING about engines, the grizzled veteran I worked with (he had been there for a whole YEAR), told me that a hi-po engine had a 3/4 cam, hi-domed pistons, and shorty rods.
tom
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:27 pm
by Keith Morganstein
As teenagers with thoughts of hot rods and reading magazines,
We all thought a 30/30 cam was full race and a 3/4 was a little smaller.
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:35 pm
by gmrocket
comp, crane(did), isky&crower all offer 3/4 race cams..i'll bet there are quite a few others that i dont know about. to these guys there "is" a 3/4 race cam, they're not dreaming
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:19 pm
by CamKing
gmrocket wrote:comp, crane(did), isky&crower all offer 3/4 race cams..i'll bet there are quite a few others that i dont know about. to these guys there "is" a 3/4 race cam, they're not dreaming
Really, I've never seen one listed.
Could you show me one?
http://www.compcams.com/Cam_Specs/Browse.aspx
http://www.iskycams.com/onlinecatalog.html
http://www.crower.com/misc/m_cat.shtml
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:41 pm
by robert1
I walked into Lunati in 1973 and asked Dale Browning for a 3/4 cam for my 352. He said he didn't know what one was. I thought what is this guy doing selling cams!!!
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:05 pm
by Doug Kennedy
Mike, look at flathead fords in your isky link. They show 3/4 and full race cams
Re: cam
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:07 pm
by Doug Kennedy
k-star wrote:I remember being a 16 year old kid at the Vo-tech school and all of us motor heads talking about the day when we could afford to get a 3/4 cam for our cars. Then one Monday morning one of the guys announced to the group that his brother just installed a 4 degrees over full cam in his 327. Man we were all heart broken knowing that we could never obtain that level of camshaftdom in our engines.
Keith
LOL that brings back memories..........I remember a kid tell me he had a "3/4 quite cam
