- 1. Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Cwn74@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:00:32 EST
- top My understanding is that the cam bores in the block are the same diameter for the 1147, 1296 and 1500 engines. The later engines deleted bearings by increasing the diameter of the cam to make up
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- 2. RE: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: "BillG" <wrgingerich@qwest.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:22:44 -0600
- OK, so this raises another question: Other than journal size, are these various cams identical i.e.: same lift, duration, and timing? Will any old Spitfire cam with bearings, assuming it is in good c
- /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00032.html (8,244 bytes)
- 3. Re: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Roach" <rroach@direct.ca>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:29:55 -0800
- Well, they are different. For instance the early 1300 cams are a good "street" mild cam to put into 1500 engines. Ron '78 Spit 1500 Vancouver --Original Message-- From: BillG <wrgingerich@qwest.net>
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- 4. Re: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Cwn74@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 23:04:20 EST
- I think some/one of the Mk2 1147cc cams have the best performance characteristics (and work similarly fine in a 1500), but I can't tell you which one. My thoughts are that you can acquire a small dia
- /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00038.html (8,256 bytes)
- 5. Re: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 23:10:57 -0700
- What Ted says is: "Send me your old cam and tell me what grind you want and I'll have it reground for you." The gotcha is that you will get your cam back if it was a 1500 cam with bigger journals, yo
- /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00039.html (9,045 bytes)
- 6. Re: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@q1.net>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 08:28:57 -0500
- listers. joe is right. since we have only a relatively small number of cams available as cores, we regrind whay the customer sends. if you want a small journal cam, send a samll journal cam. we can s
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- 7. Re: Spitfire cam bearings (score: 1)
- Author: "dt gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:31:53 -0500
- Ted, It's great to see you back on the list. I look forward to seeing more posts from you. Dave Gebhard -- Original Message -- From: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@q1.net> To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00097.html (7,916 bytes)
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