These were installed on my friend's 97 gsr roughly 2 years ago along with bc3+ cams, portflow valve springs, skunk2 im, etc. My friend called me from his school's parking garage the minute he heard an unusual noise coming from the engine bay. Needless to say, the car was immediately towed to my garage.







If anyone has a number to Buddy Club's customer service, please let me know. I would of never expected this to happen with a product from Buddy Club.


Modified by Nisif at 1:15 PM 10/29/2006

 

ouch !!!!

 

yikes

good luck http://www.buddyclub.us/

 

From what I could see the exhaust cam had about 5 degrees more play then it should of after it broke. Fortunately, he lucked out, I installed oem cam gears on it for the time being, and the car runs, but not hardly as strong as it did before. I still have a strong feeling that he may have bent some of the exhaust valves. Haven't had much time to look into the valves, he and I are both busy with school right now.

 

ouch, he have TDC marks on those gears? ive seen em break before bot not the newer ones. BC seems to be pretty good about replacing them though..

 

Damn, that's what happen when it made in Taiwan.

 

Just send them back they are real good about replacement.

 

That bites.

 

I saw this thread a while back. Pretty impressed with the customer service.

https://honda-tech.com/zero...age=1

I hope it helps!!!

 

Hello! We will be contacting you regarding this issue. Not sure how this happened in your case but we definatly want to find out and help you. You can contact me at kevin@buddyclub.us. Thank you!
Buddy club USA

 

Impreesed they lasted 2 years., How high was he rev'ing it?

 

customer service

 

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Buddy club USA</TD></TR></TABLE>


damn that says alot right there...everyone else usually just gives the classic we dont warranty performance items crap

 

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damn that says alot right there...everyone else usually just gives the classic we dont warranty performance items crap</TD></TR></TABLE>
yeah, they have great customer service. I bought my brother of these cams way back when, and he's still running them without any problems... buddyclub service

 

Is it possible the bolts came loose and then it snapped? intresting I thought only AEM's did that. You're sill driving the car after this happend? Why not pull it apart and check for damge.

 

yea those pesky exhaust valves... been there but mainly due to mis-shift

 

2 years isn't bad that have lasted. You ever seen aftermarket cams over 30k street miles??? lol

If Buddy Club comes in and helps you out, I'm speechless to say that's what be far excellent customer service!!!


Funny, I bought a ricer mod about a month ago. A CF hood from Seibon for my EG, after 1 week on the car, the hood's clear started to crack. Call up Seibon and basically told me its a race part, what do you expect??? Very....i guess!

Unlike most of the aftermarket parts (90%) in this industry, it came from the same plant as w/ VIS and others. lol,,,,,,,wtf?

 

Great, now all the idiots on this site are going to be like " Yeah Buddy Club ******* sucks, my friends car had there cam gears and they broke in half while he was on the highway at 9800 rpms and he almost crashed and the block cracked in half. Boo for Buddy club "

 

this is the second BC cam gear failure ive seen

 

Just to give everyone an update, Kevin from BuddyClub will be replacing the cam gear, to him for taking care the problem.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DonF &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Impreesed they lasted 2 years., How high was he rev'ing it?</TD></TR></TABLE> It's his only car, so its daily driven, however, he babies the hell out of it. Actually the rev limiter hasn't been changed, still set at 8k.

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All of the bolts were still tight. I'd pull it apart if I had the time and if he had the money and another car to drive.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BERT-O &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">2 years isn't bad that have lasted. You ever seen aftermarket cams over 30k street miles??? lol

If Buddy Club comes in and helps you out, I'm speechless to say that's what be far excellent customer service!!!


Funny, I bought a ricer mod about a month ago. A CF hood from Seibon for my EG, after 1 week on the car, the hood's clear started to crack. Call up Seibon and basically told me its a race part, what do you expect??? Very....i guess!

Unlike most of the aftermarket parts (90%) in this industry, it came from the same plant as w/ VIS and others. lol,,,,,,,wtf?</TD></TR></TABLE>

BuddyClub does have good customer service fortunately. When my friend was planning to mod the motor 2 years ago, I did my best to recommend quality parts that would last the life of his motor, knowing that he would be putting some miles on the car, with no intent to further mod the engine. The way I see it, if you pay a premium for good parts, that extra money "should" give you the piece of mind that the part will last like an oem part would.

 

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HAHA! You're english must have been made there too!

 

that hurts...i'm plannin to run those myself...maybe a change of plans...

 

for buddy club customer service!

 

good people!

 

My buddy has been running those gears for about 4 months with no problems.

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My gsr has 131,xxx on it. I bought the car with 108,303 on it with the skunk2 pro series cam gears already on it. I have driven the car for over a year, beating the hell out of it on a daily basis. reving to 9k. No problems to mention here. However if and when anything happens to my current gears, I will go to buddy club because you can see here in this thread they stand behind their products, where as Skunk2 has the worst customer service I have ever dealt with.

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