brian1115

I received my cam in the mail from Jegs today and it looks like it has paint between the lobes on it. One spot the paint is orange and the other spot it is white. There is a blue dot at the end of the cam which I understand to be normal. My question is is it normal to have these other colors of what look to be paint on the cam?

It is a Jegs 200582

Rise of the Phoenix

iTrader: (27)

Lacquer thinner should take it right off. One of the cams I ordered from Flowtech Inductions looked that way, but it's totally fine.

brian1115

thanks bro

whatsa347

iTrader: (6)

This^ my streetsweeper HT and MS4 had paint on them, I think it's a comp thing.

Dimeomboost

wow u actually took the time to make this as a "helpful" reply. U know some people love cars and aren't that knowledgeable about every single detail and once u add the cost of expensive ls performance parts taking a chance at screwing a motor up or asking a simpleasure question I prefer the question any day. Besides if he had put it in and blown his **** up and been like we'll there was some paint on it but it didn't seem to important he would have gotten more responses calling him retarded probably

truckdoug

iTrader: (25)

the paint in between lobes is a common way to mark the part as checked between machining ops, QC, batch runs, etc. it's not just cams that get dotted with a paint pen. if you open enough motors you'll see all sorts of scribbles. I have seen a smiley drawn inside a land rover motor

remove it or don't it's not gonna hurt anything.

01ssreda4

iTrader: (96)

He may have been unsure if the paint would come off in the engine during operation....which seems reasonable if you are unfamiliar. Stop being an *** to the guy.