View Poll Results: Have your adjustable cam gears failed/slipped?
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Truth Squad Poll: Have your Evo's adjustable cam gears failed
Nov 30, 2005, 12:01 PM
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I have HKS cam gears, set to the positions recomended by silver surfer before he left evolutionm, and with the bolts held in with red "locktight". I wanted Dave Buschur to play with the cam gear settings on the dyno, but it seems that some of the locktight got between the parts of the cam gear that actually move, and they may as well be welded in place.... they are NEVER comming lose 
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Nov 30, 2005, 12:54 PM
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Mine slipped with lock tight. Don't know why maybe because i was enjoying the cams and driving like a jerk but they slipped after tuning my car after the dyno, on the way home. Just one slipped. I would never run gears again and just stick with factory settings and lager cams. Also my gears were slightly larger then the factory gears and made noise, I switch back to the stock ones when found out that my cam gear slipped.
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Nov 30, 2005, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by 04 rs
anyone use aem"s?????
I did not use them on my car but I did install a few sets on other peoples cars and I really like those over any other that I have installed or used my self. IMHO
Nov 30, 2005, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Lyublinsky
Mine slipped with lock tight. Don't know why maybe because i was enjoying the cams and driving like a jerk but they slipped after tuning my car after the dyno, on the way home. Just one slipped. I would never run gears again and just stick with factory settings and lager cams. Also my gears were slightly larger then the factory gears and made noise, I switch back to the stock ones when found out that my cam gear slipped.
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I'm assuming when you say larger, you mean the O.D. was bigger?
Nov 30, 2005, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by dubbleugly01
Yours were slightly larger than factory? That doesn't make sense, if they were larger, they would spin slower than needed, and never stay in time.
I'm assuming when you say larger, you mean the O.D. was bigger?
I'm assuming when you say larger, you mean the O.D. was bigger?
Nov 30, 2005, 06:16 PM
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I've seen several cases of cam gears slipping in other applications of a few different manufacturers... a couple user error... not all. What most forget is they are a "race part", and not a 100k OE part. I don't/won't run them on anything short of a weekend race car, and even that is debatable.
Since I've not personally seen them slip in an Evo application (like it makes a difference), I didn't vote.
Since I've not personally seen them slip in an Evo application (like it makes a difference), I didn't vote.