Just wondering if its a good idea to purchase some cam gears and have a little something extra to tune my car on the dyno. Do any of you guys use them and does it make a considerable difference for turbo'd cars?

 

aem cam gears kinda are sketchy... they only have 3 bolts... they slipped on a friend of mines ls/vtec motor and bent a ton of valves... so try to stay away... go with skunk or any other .. that have liek 6 bolts and torque them dowN!

 

oh really that sux...aside from that does anyone else use camgears in general, for their setup?


[Modified by NHB Fighter, 4:13 PM 9/22/2002]

 

Ive had my AEMs for over 2 years and never had them slip on me.

 

I have had aem's for a year and no problems.

 

Most aem's don't slip, but there have been many instances which they have.

 

I had them for a few months and had one of the bolts begin to strip on me. After reading a few horror stories I decided that my VERY expensive built motor wasn't going to take a chance with them, so I got the Skunk2 gears instead. That's just me though.

-Trung

 

wow tony is on here

 

Gotta keep you guys in line

 

i have an aem cam gear on my sohc, i'm missing one bolt so i really only have 2, had it for a year, hasn't slip on me, u can tell the difference when tunning, mines retarded right now getting ready for some nos.

 

i had a set on my car and threw one of the bolts off and let the gear slip. Got a new bolt and still run the same gears without a problem since.

 

Endyn cam gears?


[Modified by riceboy, 9:06 AM 9/27/2002]

 

My AEM's wore down to the point where bare metal began to show (yes with proper belt tension) so I chucked them and every other aluminum cam gear with em (spunk's included). I now will only use HKS, Spoon, or JUN. They all use steel gears, just like OEM.

 

I've never had a problem with the AEM gears, but I guess every company's product has their share of bad seeds.

 

I've got a set of AEM trutime camgears in my teg.. no problems so far.. and has helped extract lots of power from the B18C-R cams that i'm using too..

 

I keep hearing people say good stuff about the HKS gears, I've only seen them on a few cars.

 

thats because they are way over priced. Remember, it's spelled HK$

 

lol, what are they priced at?

 

I've had aem gears on my car for 3 years now without too many problems. Mine had the older allen heat bolts and the heads on those ones WILL strip out, I replaced the bolts with some real bolts and washers and haven't ever had a problem. Their new gears come with regular bolts now instead of the crappy allen head ones.

 

i use the hks ones with great sucess just littl priced got them from tony at jotech when they built the car.

 

i used them on some of my customers cars and have not seena a problem with them.
Miller

 

So what kind of power gain did u guys notice on the dyno when tuning the gears?

 

I don't think one gear will show power increase over another. Just The steel ones have less of a tendancy to slip over the Aluminum.

The HKS sure are ugly though. I'd have to paint first.

 

yea, I noticed them on your motor in Houston.

 

Are you sure your timing is the only thing thats retarded? 2 bolts is kinda asking for it!

Rob