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Old 01-14-2007, 01:04 AM
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Default Colt Cams regrind - Anyone?

Has anyone tried the Colt Cams regrind for the 951?

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234° @ .050 .477 Lift 114 LDA

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Old 01-14-2007, 01:31 AM
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Web Cam Grind 274

234° @ .050 with .480 lift
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"Web Cam Grind 274

234° @ .050 with .480 lift"

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Opinions on the Web Cam?



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no issues, no complaints.
They rushed shipping to get me regrind in time for autocross. Shipping was steep, but was next day and as expected.

Honestly hard to judge as, the car was never fine tuned and running quite right until after new cam
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Was it a drop in and go, or do you need shims?



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nope, new lifters, regrind cam, real close inspection of everything (springs, retainers, etc, etc), reasembly.

Reason for replacement was failure of three lifters (totally soft) after hard over-rev in full boost.....
my own fault... car was driven aprox 2 miles after - and immediately investigated.
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Rogue,

Cool write up on you MAP conversion!! Did you get the timing control sorted?

Sorry for the OT - no experience with the cam.
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Pauerman,

Thanks! Timing control is in the works... I need to get a scope so I can get some better info. The Fullthrottle guys have been great to me!



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