camshaft advice

[Bobby Kimbrough]

Rowdy, I appreciate what you are trying to do, trying to give advice to someone that asked a question, but you seem to be coming off pretty harsh and very opinionated. Most of these folks are regulars here, they race together and know each other very well.

Perhaps instead of asking what's wrong with these Victorville people and pointing out that there are many different acronyms for the track, you could have just asked what track he races at.

You can tell me to mind my own business and go away, but I'm trying to keep you from getting ganged up on. I know just about everyone that posts here on a personal level and I can tell you this with 100 percent certainty: You can't just demand respect from these folks and expect to get it. Give a little to get a little.

[Rowdy Burns]

Isky Cam 201281-6. 280 advertised duration, .485 lift, 232 @ .050. 106 lobe separation.

Nothing wrong with the camshaft, but I would suspect that you had problems either with the break in period of the camshaft or the lifters or you used lifters that were unsuitable for the camshaft or had the springs installed wrong.

The spring heights always needs to be checked so that all the springs have equal pressure over the nose.

Some people uses whistle tubes on the oil galley to starve out the lifters to gain oil control so that the motor will have less windage and make more horsepower.

I used Crane lifters or Rhodes lifters and if you believe that you are going to have a problem, you can put the camshaft in a street motor and run it a couple of months to break it in and then take it out and put the lifters back on the same lobes in the new motor and the camshaft will live a lot longer then if you were just to put it in a race engine, break it in for a half a hour and then change the oil and go racing. The high RPM's is what takes the lobes out as much as anything else.

A pick up truck, puddering around town, to go to the grocery store to get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread is a lot more gentle then a race car that either is sitting idling or running full bore.

[camaro kid]

[quote=Rowdy Burns;
A pick up truck, puddering around town, to go to the grocery store to get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread is a lot more gentle then a race car that either is sitting idling or running full bore.[/QUOTE]

You ain't seen me goin for milk..........

[Nerd49]

Originally Posted by camaro kid

You ain't seen me goin for milk..........

You go for milk? I get the feeling it's more like a BEER run!

[Rowdy Burns]

I was just thinking about you guys yesterday when I was going to buy some new bullets for my gun.

A boy with one of those pocket rocket motorcycles passed me going around a turn at about 60 MPH. Now he really thought he was doing something, so I decided to skeer him a little. I was driving my old Pontiac GXP and I didn't even have the transmission in manual.

I stepped the gas pedal down about half way, didn't even take it out of 4th gear and when he looked in his mirror, all he could see was a white Pontiac catching him. I looked down at the heads up display and it said I was going 105

Now I know that the car will do 160 with no sweat, but the local police don't take kindly to people drag racing on the street. Chances are, if you get caught, the guy on the bike won't.

I just let him go, because when I saw him step on the brakes to go around a curve that I didn't even have to lift to go around, I knew he wasn't much of a bike rider and sooner or later he would just be another greasy spot on the road. I wonder what the fine is in Pennsylvania for 105 in a 45 zone, probably more then I could afford!

[camaro kid]

Originally Posted by Rowdy Burns

I was just thinking about you guys yesterday when I was going to buy some new bullets for my gun.

If that's how you describe refilling your viagra prescription, we're not interested.......

And you shouldn't be chasing boys !

[Rowdy Burns]

I hear you Camaro Kid

You are just jealous because your car can't go 100 miles an hour.

[camaro kid]

Originally Posted by Rowdy Burns

You are just jealous because your car can't go 100 miles an hour.

Sounds like the viagra talking........