Camshaft help needed

[Jeff G 78]

Leon, I run a Web Racing camshaft. Here's a quote from Bryan Little's website:

"Webcamshafts of Riverside, California is worth checking out. They have 50 years experience with creating custom and antique engine grinds as well as a couple of decades of producing Zcar cams. And after talking to them on phone they appear to really know their stuff. It turns out they use CWC billets for their new Z cams and also create reginds (your choice), but they "Nitride" them which involves heating them to 900 degrees and in an ammonia gas chamber. Nitriding creates a super hard lobe surface and is considered to increase the life of a cam 10-fold."

I also use only VR-1 oil which might help and I run a turbo oil pump which might have increased the flow enough to provide some oiling.

All I know is that I got lucky.

[Jeff G 78]

Will do cliff. I should be able to report back in about 3 weeks how it performs on the track. When I had the cam in my L26, it really woke up the engine. I don't think it lost much on the bottom and it pulled to well over 6500 RPM. The engine was old and tired though, so the overall power output was still low. With my new F54/shaved P79 motor and the addition of a header and 2.5" MSA exhaust, I should be making around 175 RWHP.

[LeonV]

I bet you had just enough oil flow and that the cam was a reground Nissan piece. CWC blanks are not nearly as durable.

[Jeff G 78]

Nope, it's a CWC blank with a stock base circle.

[LeonV]

Nope, it's a CWC blank with a stock base circle.

Interesting. You must have had just enough oil flow then...

[siteunseen]

Turbo oil pump spun with a Dewalt cordless drill on low. Love that high flow oil pump even better now!