Dougs951S

I've been making some phone calls and I can't seem to locate a machine shop in a 100 mile radius of austin, tx that is willing to regrind a cam for me. One shop straight up told me "his equipment wasn't accurate enough to do it without ruining the cam." I guess I appreciate the honest answer, I'm just not too sure how accurate that really is. Anybody know of any good shops even if they are not local that will do a good job grinding and face hardening? I didn't think it would be hard, I know regrinding is real popular with the lsX guys. I feel like the answer became no the moment I mentioned it was for a porsche.

dlr944

From Austin as well... Might try moorespeed for recommendation.

Have you tried webcam? They have custom services.
http://www.webcamshafts.com/

dlr944

Do own a red 951?

onspeed

I see tons of red 951s.

I know a chemistry professor at UT has one that he's recently started to use as a DD. Looks pristine, less than 100k miles I think.

Also know a few members from here who either have or had red 951s.

Dougs951S

Nope I drive one of the only nautic blue metallic 951s you will ever run across. Also the reason I am interested in a regrind was that I was very graciously given a good 83 N/A cam by a fellow lister who converted to V8, the stipulation being that I do something awesome with it and have it reground into a nasty turbo street cam. I'm looking for something a bit hotter than the off the shelf 274 webcam profile but still want to keep my hydraulic lifters. Its almost exclusively a highway car so idle quality matters little to me; I would actually like a bit of a lumpy idle. I'm also not planning on revving the car past 6500 rpm in the interest of my rod bearings so I'm looking for the hottest possible cam in that powerband. I spoke to elgin cams who said they could offer me a regrind + hardening for ~350 and a new cam for ~425. Seems kinda pointless at that price to not buy new but I'm pretty dead set on having this cam reground.

dlr944

Interesting.. Seems like general theory on this board is that the regrind just moves the tq curve to the right and not ideal for street. What's your thought on this project?

dlr944

Btw I drive a Baltic blue 89 turbo. Still have original sticker and was a $747 option in 89. Is nautic much different than Baltic?

URG8RB8

On an '89, Glacier is the blue to be!

Dougs951S

The Baltic is a great color, nautic is a lot darker though. It's more like a fire flecked navy blue and it was always paired with light buckskin leather, light cream carpet and sage green floor mats. Only available in 87. I'll post some pictures but my car badly needs a respray!

Ski

Duffin Engine Service San Antonio - ask about the cam, they do Great Alusil work - that's who does our blocks - he's done everything that we've built as far as block work.

rlm328

Send it to lindsey racing or chris white and tell them what you want. Milledge also have cams. Sending from Austin to okc is 2 days getting it back is the same. You will be assured it is done properly.