Can I epoxy my cam lobes for more lift?

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10-15-2006, 06:45 AM

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like all great inventions,its so simple,why didnt i think of that before!

10-15-2006, 06:47 AM

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You may joke but I added a couple of teeth to my ring gear using epoxy and turned my 3.42's into 3.90's.

10-15-2006, 07:11 AM

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You may joke but I added a couple of teeth to my ring gear using epoxy and turned my 3.42's into 3.90's.

PICS!!!

10-15-2006, 08:34 AM

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flippin wackadoos!

10-15-2006, 09:34 AM

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As long as you heat treat the epoxy you'll be okay.

10-15-2006, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ArcticZ28

I just made a texas giant out of my stock cam.

Everyone send your F'ed13 cams this way and I'll make em right

when can i send you a stock cam to make one for me? i'm sure you have a line of people but i will wait, im sure its worth it.

10-15-2006, 12:24 PM

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I'm taking orders as we speak, and I just made a VTEC texas giant cam. BOOYA.

10-15-2006, 12:38 PM

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Once you perfect this technology, I'd like to send you my stock crark to be epoxied and offset ground so I can build a 382.

I assume you can also epoxy the additional weight for balancing, right?

10-15-2006, 01:01 PM

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I assume you can also epoxy the additional weight for balancing, right?

Does the pope **** in the woods?

10-15-2006, 01:23 PM

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Only if your as stupid as your are acting right now.

10-15-2006, 01:25 PM

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I made an underdrive crank pulley out of balsa wood, took me a couple of days to widdle it, but it was alot cheaper then paying $200+ for a steel one.

10-15-2006, 01:30 PM

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Only if your as stupid as your are acting right now.

But, would that be more or less stupid than your use of grammar?

BTW, I bet balsa wood is a lot easier to remove than a March pulley.

10-15-2006, 02:47 PM

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I made an underdrive crank pulley out of balsa wood, took me a couple of days to widdle it, but it was alot cheaper then paying $200+ for a steel one.

Who else is in for a group purchase??!?!?

10-15-2006, 03:13 PM

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Can you make my 224 a TRex?

Thanks!

10-15-2006, 03:56 PM

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Can you make my 224 a TRex?

Thanks!

That's child's play. I just turned a Geo metro cam into a .700 lift solid roller cam.

10-15-2006, 04:20 PM

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That's child's play. I just turned a Geo metro cam into a .700 lift solid roller cam.

LMAO/// this is great guys.... he can also change the lenght of your pushrods if need be to the new sized cam......

10-15-2006, 04:34 PM

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Already working on that, along with extending the rockers so the geometry is correct. After all, what good is an epoxied cam with a loud valvetrain? I'll tell you. It's no good. No reason to half *** all of this work.