Doug-
Are you nuckin futs ? ? ?
Let's just say that I seen what I needed to see on an injector body- magnafluxing does wonders to bring out something that was to be made invisable. Do you hide in my shop? garage or do you have the next door neighbors on speed dial? You don't know chit on what I am doing- what I post is what I choose to post.
As far as them sponsoring one of my projects that is out and out BULL CHIT!!! I asked Don a loooong time ago if he could put a custom grind more race orientated into a blank- and he told me he has no time to do one off custom race grinds!!! Never once was sponsoring or product support brought into question! I was willing to wait and pay for a custom grind to be done and to be told he can't do it with his bad a$$ CNC Camgrinder that he keeps pointing out- I moved on to someone who has been in camshaft development a lot longer than Don. Experience in cam development shines. Funny how it is recommended to NOT run a Helix with a 13mm or 14mm P-pump, yet the one's I am involved with HAS HAD cams developed, tested in extreme racing conditions, and in endurance conditions being the ones in being daily driven. Back to back dyno testing has been done with positive results, as well. Several people have even gone so far as to send in their Helix cam to have a real grind put in. Given the taper after the number 2 bearing journal that the root of the cam takes, this cam guy will not use these cams to put his numbers on. He avoids component mortality, your favored product has a smaller root diameter than the factory cams- deflection worries me while using a smaller root diameter cam due to deflection a camshaft undergoes under accelleration and even under de-accelleration. This is a major action that snaps small root cams like a twig. Seeing this warning by the Soup Nazi only further validates this concern in his product line.
I know you and Don were in development together for the F series camshafts
so tell me you have nothing to gain is fruitless..... :kick:
Douglas-
Now onto experience in question-
Have you crunched someones valves lately during a retorque job you were doing? 6 thousandths on the intake and 16 thousandths on the exhaust? With a ported cylinder head that was milled and had an o-ring job done on it along with a high lift cam and a .30 thousandths head gasket.... Ring a bell-Oh yeah, you did and he now has replaced his engine due to several bent studs and every piston showed a long term condition of valve contact, along with all the exhaust pushrods that were bent and all the exhaust tappets were shattered !!!! We are still trying to figure out how these studs bent- these bent studs were a beyotch to remove from the head !! I do know setting valve lash on engines it pays to know every component and it's clearances- BEFORE crunching someones valve in hopes of a little more power improvement- you should take the steps required to ensure the clearance is actually there! And for the record this very same truck had a set of F1 4.5's and every injector had proper pop off issues, EVERY ONE- needless to say he used these as cores, and he is VERY happy with his new set of sticks that was recommended to him.
I sure hope you fly planes better than you turn up an engine.:bang
