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FE Technical Forum / Re: solid roller cam selection
« on: July 23, 2015, 05:59:47 PM »
Contact an engine builder with lots of experience with the engine you're working on. Don't waste your time with the cam "tech lines". Call 5-6 of them and ask if they've ever seen an FE. ;-) You will find that most of the off-the-shelf FE cams are the typical 6° duration split, 110 LSA, 106 ICL. Sure, that can work for a lot of stuff, but there are certain combinations that just need something different.
The guys who can help the most are the ones who screw together FE's every day....and there's a handful of us on here. So ask away.
BTW, most of us are "custom cam grinders" in the sense that we have access to lobe catalogs from the various manufacturers and we hand-pick the lobes based on the needs/wants...then we just have a cam manufacturer grind it and away we go.
The guys who can help the most are the ones who screw together FE's every day....and there's a handful of us on here. So ask away.
BTW, most of us are "custom cam grinders" in the sense that we have access to lobe catalogs from the various manufacturers and we hand-pick the lobes based on the needs/wants...then we just have a cam manufacturer grind it and away we go.