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Camcraft
Newsletter January 1, 2002 Editor: Charles Reichard www.camcraftcams.com Dear Customers, The New Year has arrived and we are safely back from our Christmas cruise. We had a wonderful relaxing week in the Caribbean and are refreshed and ready to get back to work. We visited Half Moon Cay, (Holland America’s own private island) as well as St. Thomas and Nassau. I managed to restrict my weight gain to only 3 or 4 lbs. I did not miss many opportunities to eat and try lots of new things. Over all 2001 was a good year for us and we want to take this opportunity to thank all of you that contributed to our success. We are a company that relies on many small customers with repeat business rather than several large customers. All of you are important to us. This is the time of year when we reflect on the year past, review our mistakes, misfortunes, and our successes and plan improvements for the coming year. 2001 has been a pretty good year for many of our customers as well. The racing industry has been particularly good over all. The established race engine builders are very busy and their customers are bringing in engines for freshening earlier than ever. Several customers said they would normally have a couple of engines on the floor to do in November. They had six to ten engines with more promised. Other segments of the industry have not fared as well. I had planned to do a little cam designing while we were away but my laptop computer did not cooperate so all I got done was this newsletter and some planning for future designs. I will be doing some serious work on designs for the first couple of weeks this year and may not be available some mornings as I do our cam designing at my home office.
Have you wondered what we look like in person? Soon we will have a new addition to our web site introducing all of our employees with a short biography on each one. Look for this by Feb 1st. Meet the people you deal with and put a face to the name on the phone. You will also get to see pictures of our shop as well.
New profiles for 2002
I already have a .475 valve lift profile for Fords that has 240 degrees @ .050 and plan to do a 244 as well. These have new .874, 26-degree major intensity ramps and are primarily aimed at the NASCAR Grand Stock class. I may also do a few .323 lift profiles with the same ramps. I will also do a series of .466 lift roller profiles with 32 degrees major intensity that will be very stable at high rpm even with 2:1 rockers. There will also be a series of .466 lobe lift roller profiles beginning at 256 degrees @ .050 with 32 degrees of major intensity. There will be some new .390 and .410 lift profiles as well. They will be based on our HMT series of hydraulic profiles. We have recently acquired the model making equipment from Taylor cams. This means we will be able to go from concept to finished cam in-house. We will likely continue to have most of our serious racing masters done on a CNC grinder as we have done for the last ten years. This equipment will be used for Tractor pulling profiles or top-secret things we don’t want anyone else to see. It takes 6-8 hours to make a really good model so it really doesn’t save any money to make your own. In our November newsletter we stated that we had no suitable masters to grind the For 60 V-8 cores we have on hand. That has changed. We now have 2 of the most popular Ford 60 profiles in hand. They are the Harmon and Collins --- and the Winfield ----. We obtained original H & C and Winfield cams to copy these profiles from. They will be available soon.
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