Has anyone heard of this company? They make cams, and apperantly they make cams for skunk2 as well.
The reason I am wondering is I am about to buy some cams off of locass316 and he says they are skunk2 stage 2 cams but he got them from skunk2's distibutor, Wicked Industries.
Anyone know if this is legit? https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=848891
Thanks!

 

I need to know before I buy these, please help!

 

Wicked is not the distributor for skunk2, wicked just happened to find out where the skunk cams were made and copied them

 

So they don't make their cams, there just copies? Thats bullshit, he selling them as skunk2 cams.

 

Fraidso....
We tried em though,Dynoed the car with "real" skunks,switched them with the "look-alikes", valve lash and dyno said they are the same.

 

hmmm.........

 

**** it either way they are the same cams, i would just buy them for 525 and save a couple hun.

As a matter of fact i wish i woulda known about these things a little while back. Damnit.

 

redzone performance sells both skunk2 and these cams and they are the same cam like sinisterprostok said. If you want to save some money just go to redzone and pick up a set.

 

If sinisterprostok says it I would believe it. Also the guys from sinister don't B.S.

 

btw I'm buying a set from redzone. they are the same cams brandon used in his ls/vtec he hit 12.20 on

 

Wicked Industires is Speed Image correct?
Ask them for the specs on their cams and see if they will tell you.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NorCalAllMtr408 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wicked is not the distributor for skunk2, wicked just happened to find out where the skunk cams were made and copied them</TD></TR></TABLE>

so true.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NA_B16a2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So they don't make their cams, there just copies? Thats bullshit, he selling them as skunk2 cams.</TD></TR></TABLE>

so the general census is that these are NOT real skunk2 cams... when i went down to meet locass316, he told me straight up that these cams were from the distributor of skunk2. i know that skunk2 gets factory blanks from honda's manufaturer and grinds them to their spec. i did not see any markings reminicent of a skunk2 cam.

not bashing on locass316, but i think that these are not skunk2 cams.... its like... "spoon style wing... mugen style strut bar... etc. etc."

but can anybody vouch for the actual legit-ness of Wicked Industries?

 

I don't think anyone copied anyone. Instead of buying the cams from Skunk2 they buy the cams straight from the source which is in Taiwain or China or whatever. Business is business. Everything these days are made overseas. Thats how I see it.

 

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i know that skunk2 gets factory blanks from honda's manufaturer and grinds them to their spec. i did not see any markings reminicent of a skunk2 cam.

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Do you have any proof of this statment?

 

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Do you have any proof of this statment?</TD></TR></TABLE>

read from an issue of super street... cams article. truth and reliable? possibly. sorrie if i have spread any misconseption, but i will seek the truth.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmsiR20 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

read from an issue of super street... cams article. truth and reliable? possibly. sorrie if i have spread any misconseption, but i will seek the truth.</TD></TR></TABLE>

its bullshit, they are casted, machined, boxed etc in taiwan. skunk2 cams break sometimes..not as much as jun's but they do break

do a search. have you ever seen an oem cam break?

 

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its bullshit, they are casted, machined, boxed etc in taiwan. skunk2 cams break sometimes..not as much as jun's but they do break

do a search. have you ever seen an oem cam break?</TD></TR></TABLE>

wow.. thats some new stuff... anybody mind giving skunk2 a call once more?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by TECH43 RACING INC. &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

its bullshit, they are casted, machined, boxed etc in taiwan. skunk2 cams break sometimes..not as much as jun's but they do break

do a search. have you ever seen an oem cam break?</TD></TR></TABLE>

True true.

We might be able to have our cake and eat it too if things goes as planned.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmsiR20 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

read from an issue of super street... cams article. truth and reliable? possibly. sorrie if i have spread any misconseption, but i will seek the truth.</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol, this is the same magazine that wanted to do a article on my car but wanted to used other manufactors names rather than what customs or small companies parts I had on my car.

Hence I blew them off.

Whats the whole point of lying to the public,,,,,,,,,but I guess magazines are based on the manufactors that give them $$$.

SuperStreet and Turbo magazine

God I missed TMR, lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmsiR20 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

wow.. thats some new stuff... anybody mind giving skunk2 a call once more?</TD></TR></TABLE>

pisssst..................I guess you don't know someone on here, do some a little research.

-Bert

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SuperTwinz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't think anyone copied anyone. Instead of buying the cams from Skunk2 they buy the cams straight from the source which is in Taiwain or China or whatever. Business is business. Everything these days are made overseas. Thats how I see it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep, so true.....................what if we would purchase over $50k on cams, we can call them Gettel Acura Cams.

I swear, certain people don't see that. Instead, ruins other people thread.

Funny, I came back today from a small tube-header company here in Florida. Sorta makes me wanna make a header under our name............hmmmmmmmm!

 

Omniman, correct me if Im worng but I do believe Skunk has their cams made by Tesla correct?

If this is true, all you would need is a set of actual Skunk cams to send them so they can make a master and away you go... It just takes a small chunk of $$$ to get the cams done... An initial cam production run is usually 100 pieces x 2 (1 intake, 1 exhaust)

A lot of you dont realize this but the more this stuff goes on, the more sources become less of a secret and more public knowledge the industry will be forced to compete with the smaller shops lower prices for the same products...

I think its safe to say the flooding of the cam market has begun...

Its a good thing for budget Joe racer out there, not so good for the companies that have come accustom to the 500-1000% mark ups...

 

As of today we have not sold any cams directly to the public. We only sell to reputable tuner shops with garage and a physical store location, with 1 exception, Opi on Honda-Tech. We are NOT a SKUNK2 dealer and do NOT sell SKUNK2 cams. We welcome any reputable tuner to DYNO Wicked Stg2 and Stg3 cams verses SKUNK2 stg2 and Stg3 cams. To address the Intake Manifold concerns... SKUNK2 copied the TYPE-R manifold's design because it is a good design, why don't people bag on that? We also based our design on the TYPE-R manifold, NOT the SKUNK2. If you have any knowledge on manifold design and specs and you put Wicked and SKUNK2 manifolds next to each other, you will see the difference. Again, we welcome DYNO comparasion from any reputable tuner on the manifolds.

http://www.wicked-industries.com


Modified by WiCKED-iNDUSTRiES at 2:10 PM 5/12/2004


Modified by WiCKED-iNDUSTRiES at 2:41 PM 5/12/2004

 

A lot of the cams out there come from Turkey. Turkey is one of the largest steel/iron exporters in the owrld. I can think of 2 major manufacturing facilities there that supply some of the biggest names in the cam business with cores and finished cams. You would laugh if you knew what a set of cams actually cost when mass produced.

Its not hard to find these places, you just gotta know where to look and what it is your looking for.


Modified by SoCalude98 at 11:23 PM 5/12/2004