Camcraft
Newsletter
November
1, 2000
Editor:
Charles Reichard
Dear
Customers,
Our trip to Elon College for parents’ weekend was great fun. We got
to meet Victoria’s friends who all seemed to be very nice. We were further
rewarded by a great midterm report when we returned home. Her grandmother
came up from Sarasota as well as her sister Betty & Betty’s boyfriend
Stan from Ashville, NC. We all had a good time.
From
Elon we went to my cam consultant where I spent 2 ½ days increasing my
knowledge of cam design. I came back with 6 new designs and have done
several more since returning home.
We now have some very exciting hydraulic designs with 50 degrees
hydraulic intensity. This is the difference in the .004 and .050 duration
figures. Lower numbers are better and these are the lowest in the industry.
These ramps will be quiet. We primarily designed these for the 2.9L Ford V-6
to enhance low-end throttle response but they have many other applications.
It means we can increase duration and use a tighter lobe separation while
still retaining good vacuum in mild street engines
We also have new high rpm ramp designs that will be good to 10,000+
rpm even with 2:1 rockers. These have a mechanical intensity of 32 degrees.
That is the difference between the .020 duration and .050 duration. So far
we only have 2 profiles done. They are 280 & 284 duration with .420 lobe
lift. I will design many more but we will see what demand we have before
making masters. At $350.00 each we can spend a ton of money in a hurry. Our
Torque Monster series is very stable to 8500 rpm with 1.7 rockers and we
don’t have much call for higher rpm in our present market. We also added a
242/.323 profile to our XTLS series
Hydraulic
lobe specs.
Duration@
.050
198
202
206
.004
248
252
256
.006
241
245
249
.200
104
112
114
lift
.268 .280
.280
Tom
Fleming won the Limited Sportsman Championship at New River Speedway in
Radford, VA. He had 5 feature wins this year. He builds his own engines.
Mike Pettit Racing Engines powered Ted Christopher’s #----- SK
Modified to track championships at Stafford and Thompson Speedways in
Connecticut. He also won the NASCAR New England regional championship this
year.
Al
Baker of Sugar Valley Automotive owns and builds engines for the # 44 Super
Stock car driven by Kris Weller. They won the track championship at Clinton
County Speedway in Lock Haven, PA.
Steve Drummond of Drummond Race Cars, Laurel, DE finished up the year
#1 in points in the TRW all stars, #2 in NHRA Division 1 Super Gas Class and
#5 in the national points standings. Steve builds his own Ford engines and
cars. He may add a Super Comp dragster to his stable for next year.
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Yours
Truly,
Charles,
Harriett, Clarence, Shannon, & Chuck