Comp cams

[Alan Roehrich]

CWC is CWC Textron, the company that made a large quantity of the older, high quality cast cores. Since the OE's no longer order hundreds of thousands of them, there are no longer huge orders for the aftermarket camshaft companies to "tag along" with to get the cast cores at a good price, and, in fact, without the huge orders, it isn't really profitable to manufacture the cores in the smaller quantities. And the aftermarket cam companies have no desire to place huge orders, as they'd have a large inventory, and they want small inventories of "A" movers. That's why they don't even want to keep a full selection of the steel cores for rollers.


This is what happens when these "private equity" groups buy up our suppliers. Those people don't give a damn about us or our hobbies. They care about short term monthly profits.

[ken robinson]

Last time we freshen up my engine we ordered 2 cams from comp. 1 cast core cam & 1billet core cam . The billet one was on back order do to lack of cores 3 months. I guess they wait untill they get enough orders to make a run of cores .

[prostockpete1]

A lot of problems with break in was nobody was not realizing the oil companies were removing the zinc & phosphorus ingredients from the oil as nobody was reading the backside of the bottle to not notice the part # had stayed the same but product was different .. I know engine shops that burnt up everybody's brand of cam not knowing the problem was the oil all along

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by prostockpete1

A lot of problems with break in was nobody was not realizing the oil companies were removing the zinc & phosphorus ingredients from the oil as nobody was reading the backside of the bottle to not notice the part # had stayed the same but product was different .. I know engine shops that burnt up everybody's brand of cam not knowing the problem was the oil all along

Look up the Lake Speed Jr. videos. A lot of people do not realize that it is not just zinc and phosphorous. The other additive packages changed, but more importantly, so did the detergents. It's quite often the detergent package that is hurting your cam. And you CANNOT just throw more zinc, phosphorous, or moly in that oil to "fix" it.