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Subject: [Fot] Do(o)med or flat lifters?
From: tr4racing at googlemail.com (tr4racing at googlemail.com)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:09:37 -0000
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Let me add:

Standard means?.from factory

Tuning means?..from so called ?experts?

I don?t know how much experts they are but one thing is obvious.

In the past, Triumph seems not to have much trouble with camshafts?..problems 
came in when people used aftermarket parts or tuning parts.

This is always suspicious to me.

 

Cheers

Chris

 

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Betreff: AW: [Fot] Do(o)med or flat lifters?

 

I had a look around German forums and it seems to be a difference between 
tuning and standard engines.

Standard ? flat

Tuning ? domed.

 

 

 

Gesendet: Montag, 23. Juli 2018 22:17
Betreff: Re: [Fot] Do(o)med or flat lifters?

 

Not an expert but I WILL GUARANTEE the lifters in my air cooled German made VW 
Formula Vee engine have a slight radius/angle.  I check this before each 
rebuild to ensure they have not flatten.   Pre-Trump I think Germany was still 
considered part of Europe> 

 Bob   

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Fot] Do(o)med or flat lifters?

The reason for a slight angel on the lifter is to keep it from digging into the 
ramp on the cam lobe due to an aggressive acceleration design.  Typical 
American (cannot say what European mfg. does) lifters have approximately a 60 
inch radius.  I even have an additional edge radius put on the lifters.  The 
cam lobes have a slight taper side to side for rotating the lifter.  Lift on a 
cam is limited by base circle radius which in turn is limited by cam bearing 
diameter.  Then you get into duration and how fast you can get the valve open.  
All the Triumph "flat" tappets I have ever seen have a slight radius.  The 
rules say you must retain the same type (flat, roller, mushroom) lifter as 
stock.  My question is "how flat is flat".  Rule does not say the lifter has to 
rotate.  If a lifter has a 0.75 inch radius across the lifter diameter and no 
taper on the cam lobe,you can keep the lifter from rotating and accelerate the 
cam opening very fast.  Think about that.


This may be true for American engines. 

 

All European engines have no angel in the Cam shaft. And all the tappets, 
lifters, rollers, are flat. Dead flat. No light with an edge on it.

 

So maybe this is just an American thing?

 

 

Cheers Chris

 


This is well covered in many engine-building books & I've discussed it at 
length with several camshaft engineers over the years.

It's my understanding that the lobe should have a very slight angle ground in, 
and the "flat" tappet really isn't, it's very slightly convex. 

This will give it rotation, if it doesn't rotate it will wear.

There could also be spring pressure or lubrication issues?

In any case I would discuss it with the tappet supplier before doing anything, 
at the least make sure that they are sufficiently hard to begin with and can be 
reground.

 

Glen

 

 

 

-----Original Message----- 
Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 6:04 am 
Subject: [Fot] Do(o)med or flat lifters? 

In the past we had this discussion. 

I've bought some high quality lifters from USA, made from tool steel I suppose. 
400$ they've cost..... and started to fail. On 3 of them, the very center does 
show e few pittings. Also visible that only a small part of the Cam is used.. 
The cam is okay

 

 

The machine shop will grind the lifters dead flat, as they should be, they say.

 

Cheers

Chris

 


Yes, lacking access to a Cam Doc, you can use a set of V or bearing blocks, a 
degree wheel, dial indicator, and a bit of time, checked at 5 cam degrees, 
works fine.

I'm still old school though, I plot them out on graph paper!

That will give you the lobe profile but most folks don't have the full specs on 
the cam, usually just advertised lift and duration.

Since the tip of the lobe usually starts to go away first, a simple lift 
measurement will reveal the worst, best done with a dial indicator cuz some 
(cheap) cams are ground on different base circles.

Generally, ramp wear is unusual if the tip is still OK, although there can be 
exceptions.

 

Glen.

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message----- 
Sent: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 12:38 pm 
Subject: RE: [Fot] Cams 

By degreeing the cam using increments of 10 crankshaft degrees (5 camshaft 
degrees) and then plotting the results in Excel, it is possible to get a very 
accurate picture of the profile of the cam.

 

I?ve attached a spreadsheet showing an intake and exhaust lobe comparison two 
years apart of our Kastner G3 cam for reference.

 

Tim Murphy

#317 TR4

 

Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 6:31 AM 
Subject: Re: [Fot] Cams

 

Generally any obvious wear or pitting would make it unserviceable, but the wear 
isn't always so obvious.

You can measure the lift and compare to spec, that will show any worn lobes, 
but the best way is to find someone who has a "cam doctor". It's a machine that 
sets it up and measures the complete profile.

Usually if there is anything apparent that suggests that there may be problems, 
there are...

 

Glen

 

 

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sun, Jul 15, 2018 6:47 pm
Subject: [Fot] Cams

How do I determine if a cam is good or bad. If there are any marks on it does 
that make it bad. I do know that two of the lifters has pitting on the surface. 

Ronnie
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